They were dug out by debris sent violently aloft when an asteroid or comet struck the lunar surface 3.8 billion years ago.
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An undated artistic rendering shows an asteroid or comet striking near the Moon's south pole about 3.8 billion years ago, an ...
On Your Side received several phone calls and social media messages about a mysterious-looking sight in the skies.
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The energy to produce the grand canyons on the Moon is about 130 times larger than the energy in the global inventory of nuclear weapons.
Projectiles flying faster than bullets from a blast 130 times bigger than the global nuclear stockpile helped form giant lunar canyons, according to a new study.
The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.