Estimates place it at 3.8 billion years old, compared to the oldest impact basin, the South Pole-Aitken basin, which has been calculated to be over 4.3 billion years old.

Piecing together an ancient impact Canyons and ravines created by streaks of rocky debris radiate from Schrödinger basin. Lunar geologists have always known that the two canyons featured in the ...

The largest and oldest-known impact site on the moon is the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, stretching nearly 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across the far side of the moon. Thanks to new research ...

The Schrödinger impact basin is located near the exploration zone for NASA's planned Artemis mission, intended to place astronauts on the moon for the first time since the Apollo landings of the ...

Piecing together an ancient impact Canyons and ravines created by streaks of rocky debris radiate from Schrödinger basin. Lunar geologists have always known that the two canyons featured in the ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 billion years ago. Unlike Earth's, these canyons formed in less than ...

Two long, deep lunar canyons can be seen radiating from the Schrödinger impact basin near the lunar south pole on the moon's far side. The image was captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.