New findings from U.S. and British scientists indicate that an asteroid impact approximately 3.8 billion years ago formed two vast canyons on the moon's far side. Using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers learned that the asteroid created a massive basin and propelled debris at incredible speeds, resulting in canyon formations within just minutes. This discovery is promising for upcoming NASA missions to the moon's south pole, where older rocks remain intact and can provide insights into both lunar and Earth origins.
This was a very violent, a very dramatic geologic process,
The energy needed to create these two canyons would have been more than 130 times that in the world's current inventory of nuclear weapons.
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