Apr 8, 2011 · Old craters have a rounded look to them, while fresher craters are sharp-edged, and show the debris from impact. The full-res image has a scale of just a meter per pixel, so a lot …

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 also …

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 …

Feb 12, 2025 · Lunar Evolution in Light of the Chang’e-5 Returned Samples. Moon rocks brought to Earth by China’s Chang’e-5 mission in 2020 show that the regolith at the landing site is …

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 …

Objectives: We propose to advance the state of understanding of the young lunar crater population by analyzing rayed and rocky craters and lunar “cold spots.”

Feb 4, 2025 · Our Moon is full of craters, basins, and ancient lava flows. ... very young, many features on the Moon are billions of years old, with some features dating back more than four …

Dec 11, 2012 · Craters on the Moon, young and old. Click to enselenate. This shot, taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a relatively young crater carved into ancient …

22 hours ago · 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 …

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, 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 …

Feb 3, 2025 · We think the moon formed after a colossal collision between Earth and another huge object created two balls of molten magma. But we don’t know exactly when or how. Now, …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

Feb 9, 2012 · Along with its bright rays, the crisp rim of the crater, it’s very steep slopes, and a lack of observed superposed craters all argued for a very young age for this intriguing crater.

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 …

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 …

5 days ago · A few months later, Gold published his own interpretations.In his paper, co-authored with B. W. Hapke, he argued that solid volcanic rock wasn’t consistent with other data. Gold …

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 …

Feb 5, 2025 · A team of scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) at the Universities Space Research Association in Houston wrote that about 4 billion years ago, either an …

11 hours ago · Before that, a 2.2 billion-year-old crater was the oldest, the Yarrabubba crater, also located in Western Australia. The meteorite probably hit the earth at a speed of more than …

13 hours ago · The meteorite impact—in Western Australia’s Pilbara region—dates back 3.5 billion years, while the former record-holding impact crater is just 2.2 billion years old. By far, …