A meteorite carved two valleys as deep as the Grand Canyon on the Moon in just 10 minutes
The gigantic cataclysm, which released energy 130 times more powerful than the detonation of the entire world’s atomic arsenal, will facilitate the research of astronauts scheduled for a lunar landing within two years
A woman is expected to set foot on the Moon for the first time in history in two years. She will do so in the Aitken Basin at the lunar south pole, a region never explored by humans and which is one of the largest known impact craters in the entire solar system. Over 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the landing point, two valleys as deep as the Grand Canyon in the United States open up. Now, a study has revealed that these two gigantic cracks were formed in just 10 minutes after the impact of a meteorite 25 kilometers in diameter (15.5 miles) some 3.8 billion years ago.
