Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...
Two such lunar canyons, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, stretch over 270 km (168 miles) each, with depths of 2.7 km ...
Researches have determined that ejecta from an ancient asteroid. strike carved out the grand canyons (Vallis Schrödinger and ...
For comparison, it took 5 million to 6 million years for water to erode the landscape of Arizona to create the Grand Canyon ... “The Schrödinger crater is similar in many regards to the ...
A vast impact crater near the moon’s south pole ... is 280 km long and 3.5 km deep. For comparison, the Grand Canyon in Arizona is 446 km long and up to 1.9 km deep. But while that was carved ...
The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.
About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...