Chang’e-6 samples suggest 4.25-billion-year-old impact formed moon’s South Pole–Aitken basin

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon’s South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known impact crater on the lunar surface. Recently, a research team led by Prof. Chen Yi from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has dated the formation of the basin to 4.25 billion years ago by analyzing the first-ever rock samples returned from the SPA basin by China’s Chang’e-6 mission.

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The Sky This Week from March 21 to 28: Galilean moon action

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, March 21By 10 P.M. local daylight time, the constellation Canes Venatici the Hunting Dogs is some 45° high in the east. Nestled under the curve of the Big Dipper’s handle, this seemingly innocuous star pattern hosts several popular deep-sky objects.  One of thoseContinue reading “The Sky This Week from March 21 to 28: Galilean moon action” The post The Sky This Week from March 21 to 28: Galilean moon action appeared first on Astronomy Magazine. Continue ReadingThe Sky This Week from March 21 to 28: Galilean moon action