The word 'moonscape' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a landscape that appears similar to that of the moon, either as a result of its shaping or its terrain. For example, you might say "The dessert's rocky terrain was like a moonscape."
The makers of "Doctor Who", a science-fiction television series, have asked to use the moonscape created by mounds of coal and ore as a backdrop.At least one corner of the works is teeming as one of the site's two blast furnaces is replaced.
So a data-minded commentator like Nate Cohn is able to look out over the blasted moonscape of Appalachia and conclude that a party of the left has nothing it might conceivably offer the people there.
And the broad highway that slices from Tehran to Qom through a moonscape of scrubby desert and salt lakes is a clue to the city's importance.
Roughly half the proud but long-neglected turn-of-the-century dwellings have already been restored (some, arguably, over-zealously); the "crystal palace" industrial fair ground is Germany's most modern (though it needs more business); parks and lakes are being sculpted on the city's outskirts, once a moonscape of brown coal excavation.In this section Is it catching up?
After the war, returning locals were shocked to find Chinese in the shattered, treeless moonscape of Flanders.
For instance, the giant blast last February that targeted Rafik Hariri, Lebanon's best-known politician, also killed 22 others, injured scores more and turned a posh stretch of Beirut's seafront into a scorched, pockmarked moonscape.
With its abundant rice, wheat and corn, its prized apple orchards and fields of saffron, the valley is a stark contrast to neighbouring Ladakh, a moonscape of barren mountains and high-altitude desert.This, of course, is one reason the valley has been so bitterly contested.
Kenya's roads have wasted to moonscape, and its people grow steadily poorer.Take Julius.
A television in the office showed a jagged moonscape of smouldering concrete.
So the outrage has been contained.In this section A brother for her Not so fast, Mr Chen Insult and injury Forced labour and other customs Clattering over a moonscape Murder in the temple ReprintsThe BJP is suffering from other self-inflicted wounds.
Two decades ago, for example, the Villacurí plain outside Ica was a rolling moonscape of sand; today, it is home to 6,000 hectares of export crops.The other factor allowing Peru's farm export boom was the decision by the European Union (EU) and United States to eliminate tariffs on thousands of products from the Andean countries, so as to encourage alternative crops to illegal drugs.
