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NASA intends to land the "first woman and first person of color" on the moon as part of the Artemis III mission. This will be ...
China's Chang'e-6 mission landed on the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to the China National Space Administration ...
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Astronauts will study the geology at the Moon’s south pole within reach of the South Pole–Aitkin Basin, which at 4.5 billion years ...
The study, published in Nature, is based on the analysis of 578 lunar soil particles. Researchers estimated the water abundance to be less than 1.5 micrograms per gram. This value is significantly ...
Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the Moon’s largest and oldest impact crater. Now, a research team led by Prof. CHEN YI from the Institute ...
Chinese scientists have determined that the South Pole-Aitken basin, the largest and oldest impact scar on the moon, was formed 4.25 billion years ago, after analyzing lunar samples returned by ...
Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...
Credit: Arizona State University Within the South Pole-Aitkin Basin and Bolyai and Aitken craters, the team found 13, 20, and 32 small craters, respectively, bisected by an SMR.
The South Pole–Aitken basin is estimated to be about 4.3 billion years old, but only rock samples will be able to prove whether that’s the case, Petro said.