Why does the moon have so many craters when Earth doesn’t have, even though Earth’s gravity is stronger and it should be the one attracting the comets?

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Why does the moon have so many craters when Earth doesn’t have, even though Earth’s gravity is stronger and it should be the one attracting the comets?

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Answer 1

The Earth has just as many craters but most have been weathered away over billions of years from Earth’s activity. The Moon isn’t very geologically active and it doesn’t have an atmosphere so there’s no real way for the craters to disappear on the moon. The Earth’s atmosphere also causes meteors to burn up from the friction and causes less impacts to the surface where the moon has no atmosphere.