Moon's craters can help improve Solar System surface-dating methods
London, July 28 : Images of the Moon's surface, sent by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), are shedding new light into the mechanics of asteroid and comet impacts and how frequently they occur -- information that could improve estimates of the age of geological formations on other planets.
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A closer look at cosmic impacts
Moon-crater survey could improve Solar System surface-dating methods.
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A closer look at the moon and cosmic impacts
By Roberta Kwok On the far side of the Moon, a river of dark rock spills from a 3-kilometer-wide crater and divides like a forked tongue. [More]
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