A student is writing a research paper on astronomy. His teacher has asked that she include a visual aid to explain the scientific concepts in her paper. She has chosen to write about the moon, and she wants to use a visual aid to show what the surface of the moon looks like.

Which visual aid would best support her topic?

a map showing the different sizes of the moon’s craters
an illustration dissecting the moon in half, showing its inner structure
a diagram plotting the moon’s orbit around the Earth
a pie chart showing the percentages of the composition of the moon’s atmosphere