The discovery of a very young, 31 kilometre-wide impact crater beneath the Greenland ice sheet which impacted Earth toward the end of the Pleistocene epoch, is being linked to a devastating event that set the Earth on ...
... their ages through comprehensive literature studies, Qian and colleagues show that Harpalus, a 39 kilometer wide impact crater that lies on the Mare Frigoris, is a significant contributor to the many exotic fragments collected by Chang’e-5. However...
... far side of the Moon is one of the largest known impact craters in the Solar System, and now scientists have found a mysterious... a mile, is most likely a remnant of what created the crater in the first place; the iron-nickel core of an asteroid that...
... images are enhanced pictures based on the original. In the large image, impact craters of hundreds of metres in diameter, located along the crater rim, are marked by arrows. Understanding the implications and limitations of traversing at different...
... pixel identification in that first mosaic (1.3 meter pixels, 84° incidence angle). The November mosaic shows best the impact crater, ray and extensive debris field. The three largest pieces of debris are each about 2x2 pixels...
...smooth flood basalt plain, next to the Zi Wei crater, a fresh impact crater that had conveniently excavated material from below the regolith. ...exactly how this happened. Possibly there were big impacts during the magma ocean stage that disrupted the ...