Asteroid impact on Moon carved massive canyons within minutes

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​ When a massive asteroid slammed into the Moon’s southern region 3.8 billion years ago, it shot out debris that carved lunar fissures comparable in size to the Grand Canyon within minutes. Using lunar photographs, scientists created a flyover of one of the lunar valleys created by the Schrödinger Basin asteroid blast.

The finding doesn’t just illuminate a cataclysmic bit of lunar history—it may have cleared up a concern for future NASA missions.

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FOOTAGE CREDIT: ERNIE T. WRIGHT/NASA SCIENCE VISUALIZATION STUDIO

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