The smallest craters found have been microscopic in size, found in rocks returned to Earth from the Moon. The largest crater called such is about 290 km (180 mi) across in diameter, located …

Jan 29, 2025 · On the Moon, complex craters are generally around 9 miles (15 km) or more in diameter. (On Earth, they form at a much smaller size because of our planet’s stronger …

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 …

Dec 6, 2024 · The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon’s oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound four billion years old that preserves secrets about the moon’s early …

Oct 17, 2024 · It is the largest and deepest crater there. Its dimensions are 2400×2050 km, and the elevation difference from the deepest point of the bottom to the highest point of the wall is …

Feb 17, 2021 · On a Moon that's absolutely covered with impact scars, the South Pole-Aitken basin really stands out. At 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) across and up to 8.2 kilometres (5.1 …

Jun 11, 2019 · Buried under the largest, oldest crater on the Moon, scientists have discovered an enormous mass of dense material, possibly the remains of the asteroid that formed the crater …

Jul 13, 2010 · The South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin is the largest and oldest recognized impact basin on the Moon. It's diameter is roughly 2,500 km or 1,550 miles. The Moon's …

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 …

Dec 10, 2024 · Scientists have uncovered new details about the Moon's largest and oldest crater, the South Pole-Aitken Basin, suggesting it may be even larger than previously believed. This …

2 days ago · The Schrödinger impact basin, one of the younger, large impact craters on the moon, is within a few hundred kilometers of the moon’s oldest and largest impact basin, Petro said.

Clavius is one of the largest crater formations on the Moon and the second largest crater on the visible near side (very close in size to Deslandres). It is located in the rugged southern …

3 days ago · David Kring at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, has researched the 312-kilometre-wide Schrödinger crater for 15 years. Part of that was to develop possible …

3 days ago · Around 3.81 billion years ago, an asteroid or comet smashed into the lunar surface, creating a 320-kilometre-wide crater at the bottom of the Moon as we see it in the Southern …

3 days ago · The canyons look like remarkably straight lines that extend outward from a circular crater that is the Schrödinger impact basin, the result of a large impact that occurred around …

2 days ago · A woman is expected to set foot on the Moon for the first time in history in two years. She will do so in the Aitken Basin at the lunar south pole, a region never explored by humans …

4 days ago · This structure is located in the outer margin of the moon's largest and oldest remaining impact crater, the South Pole–Aitken basin, which measures about 1,490 miles wide …

3 days ago · Kenneth Chang recently reported on new views within some of the moon’s darkest craters. Feb. 4, 2025 Two canyons near the south pole of the moon rival the Grand Canyon, …

3 days ago · The maximum diameter of secondary craters produced by primary craters ≤ 260 km in diameter is 4% of the primary crater’s diameter 29, which, if extrapolated to the 320 km …

3 days ago · When a massive asteroid slammed into the Moon’s southern region 3.8 billion years ago, it shot out debris that—with energy 130 times greater than Earth’s entire nuclear …

3 days ago · A giant impact 3.8 billion years ago sent a curtain of rock flying away from a point near the moon’s south pole. When that curtain fell, its rocks plunged up to 3.5 kilometers into …