Roughly 4.3 billion years ago, the Moon experienced its biggest crash, a colossal asteroid strike that created the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest impact crater known on any ...
The moon’s oldest and largest crater didn’t form in the way astronomers thought, according to a detailed analysis of its shape, which would rewrite the moon’s early history. The South Pole-Aitken (SPA ...