Furthermore, the findings bolster the theory that the moon formed when a giant, Mars -size protoplanet slammed into the young ...

The SPA basin, a colossal scar stretching across the moon's far side, was likely formed during a barrage of asteroids pummeling much of the solar system within the first few hundred million years ...

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 ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known impact crater on the lunar surface. Recently, a research team led by Prof.

Notably, the crust exposed at the surface of the Procellarum KREEP Terrane on the lunar nearside has a higher thorium (Th) ...

The Chang'e-6 mission returned soil samples from the South Pole–Aitken impact basin of the lunar farside, providing an ...

However, the SPA basin is an exception: as a giant impact basin, its floor is flooded by now-solid lava that welled up through the wound in the moon's surface from the mantle below, like blood ...

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 ...