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Articles tagged: impact craters

  • comet impact, megafaunal extinctions, Pilauco Bajo, Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis 15 March 2019 Major comet impact burned Earth 13,000 years ago

    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 ...

    • comet impact
    • megafaunal extinctions
    • Pilauco Bajo
    • Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
  • Chang'e 5, meteorite impact, Moon formation, volcanic activity, volcanic beads 27 September 2021 Early findings from Chang'e 5 samples shows a mix of "exotic" materials

    ... 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...

    • Chang'e 5
    • meteorite impact
    • Moon formation
    • volcanic activity
    • volcanic beads
  • far side of the Moon, NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), South Pole–Aitken basin 12 June 2019 Mysterious mass found under Moon's South Pole

    ... 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...

    • far side of the Moon
    • NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission
    • NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
    • South Pole–Aitken basin
  • Chandrayaan 2, The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, Vikram lunar lander 03 December 2019 Found! The remains of India's Vikram Lander are identified

    ... 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...

    • Chandrayaan 2
    • The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
    • Vikram lunar lander
  • Japan, Low Earth Orbit, luna rovers, Moon, Space Robotics lab, Tohoku University September 2017 Plans for high-speed lunar rovers

    ... 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...

    • Japan
    • Low Earth Orbit
    • luna rovers
    • Moon
    • Space Robotics lab
    • Tohoku University
    Authors: David Rodríguez-Martínez     Dr Kazuya Yoshida    
  • 22 December 2015 First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks

    ...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 ...

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