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China's Chang'e-6 mission landed on the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to the China National Space Administration ...
South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin is about 2500 kilometers wide, making it perhaps the largest impact scar in the Solar System. Lunar Orbiter data revealed its existence in the 1960s, ...
The Moon's far side holds a colossal mystery – the South Pole-Aitken basin, the largest known impact crater in our solar system. Estimated to be 4 billion years old, this titanic scar on the ...
The formation, known as Mafic Mound, stands about 2,600 feet tall (800 meters) and 47 miles across (75 kilometers), smack in the middle of a giant impact crater known as the South Pole-Aitken Basin.
The structure was found on an area of the moon called the Mafic Mound, which stands 2600 feet tall and is 47 miles across ...
The South Pole-Aitken Basin is home to the largest known crater in the solar system. Over 1,200 miles wide, several miles deep, and thought to be about 4 billion years old, ...
The study, by planetary scientists from Brown University, maps the mineralogy of the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, a gash in the lunar surface with a diameter of approximately 2,500 kilometers […] ...
The largest and oldest-known impact site on the moon is the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, stretching nearly 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across the far side of the moon. Thanks to new research ...
The South Pole-Aitken basin is the oldest crater on the Moon — it’s covered with newer, smaller impact scars, but still clearly visible.
When it comes to the South Pole-Aitken basin, the topography is particularly striking. The feature is a massive crater stretching 1,240 miles (2,000 kilometers) ...
Image: A topographic view of the South Pole-Aitken Basin. Reds are high; blues are low. Mafic Mound, (the reddish area in the center) stands 800 meters above the surrounding surface.