The Hole Thing: Lunar Topographic Map Provides Rich Record of Impacts on the Moon

A NASA spacecraft charting the topography of the moon in exceptional detail has produced a catalogue of lunar craters that traces billions of years of impact history on the moon. The cratering record on the moon provides a proxy for similar impacts by interplanetary debris such as comets and asteroids on Earth, the effects of which have largely been erased by billions of years of erosion and geologic activity. [More] Moon - Earth - NASA - Impact crater - Solar System

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