Dec 6, 2024 · The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon's oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that preserves secrets about the moon's early history, much like a...

Jan 15, 2025 · Some of the deepest spots in those craters are as cold as Pluto. There has been speculation that, if there is any water on the Moon at all, it may be ice in those eternally dark …

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, …

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...

(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 …

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 …

Jan 14, 1995 · CLEMENTINE, a cut-price lunar probe run by the US, has found an extraordinary crater on the far side of the Moon. Some 13 kilometres deep and 2500 kilometres across, it …

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 …

Feb 10, 2025 · That target crater, known as Crater H, lies about 1,650 ft (500 m) from Athena's landing site and is about 65 ft (20 m) deep, he added. Intuitive Machines hopes to maintain …

Jan 29, 2024 · Spanning about 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) in diameter and reaching depths of up to 13 kilometers (8 miles), the South Pole-Aitken basin is an immense structure located on …

4 days ago · The tricky lunar terrain: The moon is covered in dead volcanoes and deep craters, making it difficult to find flat landing zones. Without the assistance of human eyes inside the …

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 · 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.

Feb 4, 2025 · The two extraordinary features were produced during a period of planetary upheaval when the Earth and Moon were being resurfaced by impacting asteroids and …

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 …

4 days ago · Blue Ghost, a NASA-funded lunar lander built and operated by the private U.S. company Firefly Aerospace, has successfully touched down on the moon. “We’re on the …

Feb 25, 2025 · In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ushered in a new era of lunar exploration defined by commercial …

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 …

44 minutes ago · The newly discovered crater is estimated to be at least 100 km (62 miles) wide, which suggests the original object that crashed into Earth was traveling at more than 36,000 …