Chang'e-6 samples suggest 4.25-billion-year-old impact formed moon's South Pole–Aitken basin
Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...
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NASA Earth-Observing Satellite Mission Spots Mysterious “Impact Structure” in Remote Australian Outback
An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...
A Mysterious Meteorite Fell to Earth From a Planet That Doesn't Exist
However, not all of those celestial bodies survived, and a new analysis of a the meteorite NWA 15915 shows that it likely originated from a world that was similar to Mercury in its composition—but not ...
Chinese scientists determine moon's oldest impact crater formed 4.25 bln years ago
Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...