A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, ...

Probe lands on the South Pole-Aitken basin and will start collecting the first specimens from that area The previous Chinese ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known impact crater on the lunar surface. Recently, a research team led by Prof.

SPA basin is one of the Moon’s largest and oldest impact features in the solar system. The Chandrayaan-3 landing site is located 350kms from the basin.

The thorium concentration across the vast South Pole – Aitken Basin on the lunar farside reveals the distribution of mantle materials violently ejected during the basin-forming impact.

At its bottom edge this view is about 700 km wide and gazes along the southern edge of the South Pole Aitken basin, with white arrows marking some of the massifs that are likely remnants of the ...

India's Chandrayaan-3 and China's Chang'e-6 missions have independently discovered primitive lunar mantle materials near the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin. The Indian study, through in-situ ...

The Chang’e 6 spacecraft scooped up the volcanic rock and dirt from the ancient, sprawling South Pole-Aitken basin, one of the largest impact craters in the solar system. The Chinese Academy of ...

the South Pole-Aitken Basin, was formed on the lunar far side (the South Pole lies on the huge crater’s rim). South Pole-Aitken preceded all other detectable impacts on the moon and hurled so ...

Elevation data shows the lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin, the largest and oldest impact basin on the moon, in blue and purple. | Credit: NASA/GSFC/University of Arizona A giant impact crater on the ...