Scientists could soon get a precise age for the giant impact basins on the moon, and a better understanding of the impact history of the young Earth, thanks to a new geological map of the moon's ...

November's full moon will be Friday night as the last consecutive supermoon in 2024. It's called the beaver moon, and ...

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Scientists could soon get a precise age for the giant impact basins on the moon, and a better understanding of the impact history of the young Earth, thanks to a new geological map of the moon's ...

If successful, it would provide a way to date other impact basins on the moon that have become much more degraded than the younger Orientale. "We chose to map Orientale basin because it's ...

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A team of scientists led by Kirby Runyon from the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, has created a detailed geological map of Mare Orientale basin, the Moon's youngest large impact site.