The transient crater is the bowl-shaped cavity opened by the excavation flow at the moment it stops growing; its depth is about a third of its diameter. A simple crater is a bowl with a raised rim, the transient crater barely modified: its steep walls slump inwards into a lens of breccia. A complex crater is a larger crater whose transient bowl collapsed: the floor rose into a central uplift, the rim slid inwards along terraces, and the floor is flat. The ejecta blanket is the sheet of excavated rock thrown out beyond the rim and deposited around the crater.