Mar 6, 2025 · Why Does the Moon Have Craters? An asteroid or meteor is more likely to hit Earth because Earth is a lot bigger than the Moon, giving a meteoroid more area to hit! But we can …

Explore the Moon's surface with this interactive tool that shows craters, seas, and highlands. Learn about the history and significance of each feature, such as the Apollo landing sites, …

May 4, 2012 · This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our Moon. This image, taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, …

Jun 6, 2019 · Learn how craters teach us about the history of both the Moon and Earth from an expert at the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Discover how impact cratering is the dominant …

Aug 3, 2024 · This detailed examination of lunar crater chronology covers the development of dating methods through sample analysis, discusses the historical impact flux on the Moon …

Aug 3, 2013 · Simple craters form when small meteorites strike the moon at high velocities. The bolide is vaporized along with the surface struck (the target). This vaporized rock is injected …

Nov 5, 2024 · This article provides an in-depth exploration of what we know about the Moon’s craters, including their formation, distribution, and the critical role they play in unlocking the …

Dec 9, 2024 · The South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest and oldest crater on the Moon, covering nearly a quarter of its surface. A new study suggests that it was formed by a more vertical …

Sep 16, 2010 · A NASA spacecraft charting the topography of the moon in exceptional detail has produced a catalogue of lunar craters that traces billions of years of impact history on the moon.

Mar 15, 2012 · Learn how asteroids from the neighborhood of Mars could have caused the heavy bombardment of the Moon 3.85 billion years ago. Find out how this new hypothesis explains …

6 days ago · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said …

Mar 7, 2025 · The spacecraft, which attempted a historic landing in rugged terrain near the south pole of the moon on Thursday (March 6), had toppled on its side inside a frigid crater.

Nov 19, 2024 · Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, located in Idaho, is part of the National Park Service, within the Department of the Interior. The 750,000 acre monument …

Why is the Moon bright and dark? Looking up close at a boundary in Tsiolkovskiy crater, the white arrows point to where darker mare basalts cover up highlands anorthosites, two of the Moon's …

6 days ago · A dramatic photograph from Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander shows it touched down Thursday in a crater near the lunar south pole and tipped over on its side. Given …

Feb 4, 2025 · Probing the distant past when impact bombardment was reshaping the Moon captivated Kallenborn: “Analyzing the Schrödinger impact event showed me what a fascinating …

Learn about the formation and features of large impact craters on the Moon, such as Copernicus, Tycho, and Theophilus. See images of crater rays, central peaks, terraces, and ejecta …

Feb 24, 2015 · Watch the video to see a color-coded map of lunar craters created from LRO data. This visualization highlights over 5,000 of the moon’s largest craters. Colors indicate crater …

Mar 6, 2025 · With more than a million craters exceeding 1 km in diameter, and around forty more than 100 km across 1,2, the Moon preserves an exquisite record of the intense bombardment …

5 days ago · The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest known by more than a billion years. ... as they clearly had on our cratered Moon and on other planets, ...