Tag: Moon history
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Did a Northern Asteroid Crash Make the Moon Radioactive? New Findings Reframe Lunar History
Big Impact, Big Consequences: Rethinking the Moon’s oldest scar For decades, scientists have grappled with the South Pole–Aitken basin, the Moon’s colossal imprint that stretches nearly 2,000 kilometres across. A landmark study led by planetary scientist Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna from the University of Arizona, published in Nature, offers a fresh view: the asteroid that carved this…