14 hours ago · The amount of energy needed to produce these grand canyons on the moon is 1200–2200 times larger than "the nuclear explosion energy once planned to excavate a second Panama Canal on Earth, more ...

14 hours ago · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.. That’s good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side untouched by that impact and containing older rocks in …

14 hours ago · The energy to produce the grand canyons on the Moon is about 130 times larger than the energy in the global inventory of nuclear weapons. Most of the excavated rock was ejected away from the lunar south polar region, which Artemis astronauts will soon explore. Because the Schrödinger impact debris did not bury the lunar south polar region ...

14 hours ago · The canyons are 270 and 280 kilometers long and up to 2.7 and 3.5 kilometers deep, respectively. “The landscape of the south polar region of the moon is so dramatic,” Kring says.

14 hours ago · The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about ten minutes. That's ...

14 hours ago · The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power of the Colorado River. Close to the moon's south pole are two canyons ...

12 hours ago · Width and depth of the Grand Canyon along the Bright Angel hiking trail from the south to the north rim compared with the width and depth of Vallis Planck, one of the grand canyons on the Moon ...

1 day ago · Research article: Grand Canyons on the Moon Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. doi: https://doi.org ...

12 hours ago · The Grand Canyon was formed over 5 to 6 million years as the Colorado River carved through a plateau in Arizona. (Flickr: Hannes Flo, Grand Canyon, CC BY 2.0)Debris travelled at speeds of 0.95 to ...

1 day ago · The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about ten minutes. That's because these two canyons formed in the wake of an asteroid or comet smashing into the moon, a crash that sent streaks of rocky debris flying at incredible speeds, according …