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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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Southward impact excavated magma ocean at the lunar South Pole-Aitken basin - Nature

The SPA impact excavated ilmenite-bearing cumulates and KREEP, constraining the timing of magma ocean crystallization and the basin's age.

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

Southward impact excavated magma ocean at the lunar South Pole-Aitken basin - Nature

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