The Moon’s Deepest Scar Still Glows With Clues to Its Fiery Birth

When NASA’s Artemis astronauts land near the moon’s south pole, they may be stepping into a region that holds vital clues to ...
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We were wrong about how the moon's largest and oldest crater formed — and that's great news for NASA's next lunar landing

A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...
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There’s Something Really Strange About the Moon’s Largest Crater, Where NASA Astronauts Are Due to Land

We may have been wrong about how the Moon's largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, formed roughly 4.3 billion years ago ...
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Chinese Find Clues of Moon's Past in Samples From Deepest Basin on the Far Side

It's called the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, and it is, as far as we know, the largest, deepest and oldest impact crater on the far side of the Moon. The place was born some 4, 4.3 billion years ago ...
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Mantle of the moon 'colder' on its far side

Located beneath the lunar crust, the lunar mantle is the largest component of the moon in terms of volume, and the moon's ...

China’s Chang’e-6 samples reveal the moon’s ‘two-faced’ temperatures

First rocks gathered from the moon’s far side by Chinese mission show Earth’s natural satellite has a colder side.
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Unexpected discovery on Saturn's moon challenges our view on chemistry before life emerged

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...