Science, Maths & Technology
Moons of our Solar System
...religion, if you will. Maybe it looks obvious now that the craters on the Moon were formed by impact. But in fact, the vast majority of scientists who studied the Moon, astronomers in particular, at the time that I began this work thought that these craters on the Moon were probably formed by volcanoes. That had been the prevailing idea for a century before. The beauty of...