10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
..., this imposing site is 2,500 kilometre (1,553 miles) across and is more than six times as deep as the Grand Canyon. Because of the basin's great size, the crust is expected to be thinner than typical at this location due to the...
03 January 2019
Chinese goddess lands on far side of the Moon
... the deepest, with a rim-to-floor distance of almost eight miles (13 km), or more than six times as deep as the Grand Canyon. It is believed to have formed in the Moon’s early history during a collision which likely threw up material from the...
29 March 2018
Northern Arizona Space Training
... the programme from training in Meteor Crater to exploring the Moon itself; in between, we find astronauts hiking through Grand Canyon, explosives engineers creating mock crater fields and astronomers mapping the Moon. We even discover that the...
