The moon's grand canyons were carved in the blink of an eye
1 day ago · The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about ten minutes.
Grand Canyons on the Moon Were Made in a Matter of Minutes
22 hours ago · And unlike the Grand Canyon, carved over millions years by the flow of the Colorado River, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck formed in just minutes after a 15-mile-wide meteor struck the moon ...
Grand Canyons of the Moon - newsroom.usra.edu
1 day ago · While the Grand Canyon took millions of years to form, the two grand canyons on the Moon were carved in less than 10 minutes.” The impacting asteroid or comet likely hit the lunar surface with a speed of nearly 55,000 kilometers per hour (35,000 miles per hour).
The moon's grand canyons were carved in the blink of an eye
1 day ago · The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about ten minutes. That's because these two canyons formed in the wake of an asteroid or comet smashing into the moon, a crash that sent streaks of rocky debris flying at incredible speeds, according to a new analysis in the ...
How an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
1 day ago · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.. That’s good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side untouched by that impact and containing older rocks in …
Two giant valleys on the Moon, each the size of the Grand Canyon ...
1 day ago · The Grand Canyon was formed over 5 to 6 million years as the Colorado River carved through a plateau in Arizona. (Flickr: Hannes Flo, Grand Canyon, CC BY 2.0)Debris travelled at speeds of 0.95 to ...
Grand Canyons of the Moon - lpi.usra.edu
1 day ago · While the Grand Canyon took millions of years to form, the two grand canyons on the Moon were carved in less than 10 minutes.” The impacting asteroid or comet likely hit the lunar surface with a speed of nearly 55,000 kilometers per hour (35,000 miles per hour).
Bullet-fast moon rocks carved 2 lunar gorges deeper than the Grand ...
1 day ago · View of two grand canyons on the moon radiating from the Schrödinger impact basin near the lunar south pole on the lunar far side. ... In comparison, the Grand Canyon is 277 miles long (446 km ...
The moon’s two grand canyons formed in less than 10 minutes
1 day ago · A comparison of the width and depth of the Grand Canyon along the Bright Angel hiking trail (top) and Vallis Planck on the moon’s south pole (bottom). The colors each represent 500 meters of ...
Grand Canyons on the Moon - Nature
1 day ago · Research article: Grand Canyons on the Moon Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. doi: https://doi.org ...