Shortly after the Moon formed, an asteroid smacked into its southern hemisphere and gouged out a truly enormous crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, almost 1,500 miles across and more...

Dec 14, 2017 · According to NASA, the deepest crater (and the widest) is the South Pole-Aitken basin, almost 1,500 miles (2500 km) across and more than five miles (8 km) deep. Wikipedia …

Jan 15, 2025 · The only source of heat in those craters is sunlight reflected from distant peaks, light reflected from the Earth and other planets, light reflected by fine dust orbiting the Sun, …

(PhysOrg.com) -- Shortly after the Moon formed, an asteroid smacked into its southern hemisphere and gouged out a truly enormous crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, almost …

Mar 4, 2010 · (PhysOrg.com) -- Shortly after the Moon formed, an asteroid smacked into its southern hemisphere and gouged out a truly enormous crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, …

Dec 20, 2024 · The South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA) is the Moon’s largest impact feature, named because it spans the territory from the small Aitken crater to the Moon’s south pole, or nearly a …

Aug 25, 2023 · In this multi-temporal illumination map of the lunar South Pole, Shackleton crater is in the center, surrounded by larger craters and rugged terrain. The map was created with …

Dec 19, 2024 · The South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest impact crater on the moon. Its 1,550-mile (2,500-km) expanse also makes it one of the largest known impact craters in the solar …

Jun 11, 2019 · One of the largest craters in the Solar System is on our Moon. It’s called the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin and it’s 2,500 km (1,600 mi) in diameter and 13 km (8.1 mi) deep. A …

Feb 17, 2021 · With depths between 6.2 and 8.2 km deep, it is one of the largest known impact craters in the Solar System. In their paper, the team looked at how impacts mix and combine …

Oct 21, 2022 · Regnault W, close to the northwest limb of the Moon, is the deepest simple crater we identified in the highlands. It has a diameter of ∼14 km and a depth of ∼3.3 km. Its nearby …

Feb 4, 2025 · The Moon is a vastly different place from Earth, with an ancient, pock-marked surface dominated by craters, ridges, and deep, dark basins that arise from cooled lava flows.

7 hours ago · Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes our understanding of our planet and the origins of life. The meteorite that left the crater fell to Earth …

Mar 4, 2010 · Shortly after the Moon formed, an asteroid smacked into its southern hemisphere and gouged out a truly enormous crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, almost 1,500 miles …

12 hours ago · A camera aboard Intuitive Machines' Athena lander shows the spacecraft in orbit around the moon with Earth suspended in the deep black of space some 240,000 miles away.

8 hours ago · a Geological map of a (northeastern) part of the Moon around the Atlas crater (from ref. 41), a complex impact structure with a heavily fractured crater floor and a central peak …

Feb 7, 2025 · They fell back to the Moon to create so-called "secondary craters." The canyon part is about 280 kilometers deep, 27 km wide, and 3.5 km deep. The depth of both of these …

4 hours ago · The world's oldest crater from a meteorite isn't an impact crater after all Mar 11, 2021 Scientists date moon's oldest impact basin to over 4.32 billion years ago

2 hours ago · It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 billion-year-old, 43-mile-wide Yarrabubba crater. Researchers at Curtin …

18 hours ago · “Before our discovery, the oldest impact crater was 2.2 billion years old, so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on Earth,” Professor Johnson said.

18 hours ago · “Before our discovery, the oldest impact crater was 2.2 billion years old, so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on Earth,” Professor Johnson said. Researchers …