New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
The far side of the Moon has its own versions of the Grand Canyon—two of them, in fact! A new study explains how these deep ...
New Scientist on MSN6d
Grand canyons formed on moon in minutes after colossal asteroid strikeTwo canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
Two of the Moon’s Grand Canyons Were Formed in Just Ten Violent Minutes, New Study SuggestsScientists say Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck—dramatic trenches near the lunar south pole—were carved in a blast that ...
The object that struck the moon is estimated to have been about 15 miles (25 km) in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs. "When the ...
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