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1 day ago

There's Something Really Strange About the Moon's Largest Crater, Where NASA Astronauts Are Due to Land

The Moon's South Pole–Aitken basin formed from a low-angle, southward oblique impact about 4.3 billion years ago, producing an elongated ejecta pattern and exposing minerals.
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