If certain assumptions, discussed below, are granted, rela-tive ages of lunar craters can be determined by the degree of freshness of their major topographic components such as the rim …

Feb 21, 2012 · We report new CSFD measurements for the Copernican-aged craters North Ray, Tycho, and Copernicus, which are crucial anchor points for the lunar cratering chronology. We …

Jan 29, 2025 · The crater is in the southern lunar highlands and is approximately 53 miles (85 km) in diameter and 110 million years old. A slump terrace has formed in the northern half of the …

Scientists count craters to determine how old a lunar surface is. Young craters have crisp rims and lie on top of other craters. Older craters have softer rims and their ejecta and rays may be …

Today's Featured Image highlights contrasting features of young (lower right) and old (upper left) craters with almost the same diameters (about 450 meters). These two craters are found in the …

Dec 22, 2020 · Impact craters, which can be considered the lunar equivalent of fossils, are the most dominant lunar surface features and record the history of the Solar System. We address …

May 23, 2016 · A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists discovered two geologically young craters -- one 16 million, the other between 75 and 420 million, years old -- in the …

Feb 17, 2010 · Accurately defining the ages of young lunar craters, such as Giordano Bruno, is vitally important for understanding the impact flux rate over the past few million years …

Apr 5, 2011 · This image from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) shows two similarly-sized craters in the Oceanus Procellarum ("Sea of Storms") region of the Moon – a …

May 24, 2016 · A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists discovered two geologically young craters — one 16 million, the other between 75 and 420 million, years old — in the …

May 23, 2016 · A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists discovered two geologically young craters – one 16 million, the other between 75 and 420 million, years old in the Moon’s …

Using data from the LAMP instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists discovered two geologically young craters — one …

May 14, 2011 · “Old and young craters have different roughness properties—they are rougher on some scales and smoother on others,” says Rosenburg. That’s because the older craters have …

5 days ago · Decades-old data from Apollo missions had previously detected shallow moonquakes. The Apollo Lunar Seismic Experiment recorded 28 shallow moonquakes with …

Feb 17, 2017 · It's a young crater has craters go on the moon, being less than a billion years old. This is why it looks so crisp with a sharp rim not yet eroded by smaller meteorite impacts. Just …

2 days ago · “Several impacts on the Moon have created crater trails, but these two are the largest known,” David Kring, a researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in the United …

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 …

2 days ago · A new study suggests the craters were dug out by rocky debris after the lunar surface was struck around 3.8 billion years ago. Find out more here.

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 …

4 days ago · A global lunar landing site analysis 1 found that the Schrödinger impact basin 2 is the best location for addressing National Research Council science objectives for lunar exploration …

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 …

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.

3 days ago · The impact, comparable to the one that smashed into the Earth 66 million years ago and killed the dinosaurs, punched up to 15 miles into the crust and excavated a crater about …

3 days ago · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar …

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 …