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We were wrong about how the moon's largest and oldest crater formed — and that's great news for NASA's next lunar landing
A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...
The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon has led to one hemisphere of the Moon being locked facing away from ...
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The moon's largest crater didn't form in the way we thought
The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as ...
The isotopic ratio of sulfur-33 on the moon differs from that of Earth. Did the moon's sulfur instead come from the impactor ...
(CNN) – The moon may be 100 million years older than planetary scientists thought. The moon has long been thought to have formed roughly 4.35 billion years ago after a Mars-sized object collided with ...
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There’s Something Really Strange About the Moon’s Largest Crater, Where NASA Astronauts Are Due to Land
The findings could help explain why the Moon’s far side is riddled with large craters, while the more explored near side is ...
The Moon's largest, most ancient crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, could rewrite the textbooks on how our Moon was ...
When NASA’s Artemis astronauts land near the moon’s south pole, they may be stepping into a region that holds vital clues to ...
The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the differences run deeper ...
Scientists found unusual sulfur in moon samples from Apollo 17. The discovery reveals new clues about the Moon’s ancient ...
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