This is a global view to show the entirety of the South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA), the largest and oldest impact crater on the Moon. For geographic context, the letters label other big craters in ...

By analysing a lunar meteorite known as Northwest Africa 2995, a team led by scientists at The University of Manchester have investigated the age of the formation of the massive South Pole-Aitken (SPA ...

This structure is located in the outer margin of the moon's largest and oldest remaining impact crater, the South Pole–Aitken basin, which measures about 1,490 miles wide (2,400 km) and dates ...

It collected just over 1.9kg (4.26 pounds) of lunar samples from the South Pole-Aitken basin – the largest, deepest and oldest impact basin on the moon. The far side, which constantly faces away ...

What's more, you're looking at the oldest, largest, and deepest basin the moon has. Chang'e-4 landed in Von Karman a flat landscape that sits inside: South Pole–Aitken basin. The basin is around ...

is within a few hundred kilometers of the moon’s oldest and largest impact basin, Petro said. Schrödinger is located in the outer reaches of the South Pole–Aitken basin, which future crewed ...

However, one hidden feature of the Moon has been unearthed by scientists and it’s very, very big, and very, very heavy.

(That's just a pothole compared with the moon's largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, which spans more than 1,500 miles (2,400 km) in diameter.) The probability of the space rock hitting ...

Related: China's Chang'e 6 probe to the moon's far side has a big lunar mystery to solve The Chang'e 6 mission profile is essentially ... within the South Pole-Aitken Basin (SPA), the largest ...