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This false-color graphic shows the topography of the far side of the Moon. The warmer colors indicate high topography and the bluer colors indicate low topography. The South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin is shown by the shades of blue. The dashed circle shows the location of the mass anomaly under the basin. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona

Mass anomaly detected under the moon’s largest crater

JUNE 10, 2019 Mass anomaly detected under the moon’s largest crater by Baylor University A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system—the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin—and may contain metal from the asteroid that crashed into the Moon and formed the crater, according to a Baylor University study. “Imagine taking a pile […]

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Credit: University of Kansas

Research suggests toward end of Ice Age, humans witnessed fires larger than dinosaur killer, thanks to a cosmic impact

Via Phys.org Research suggests toward end of Ice Age, humans witnessed fires larger than dinosaur killer, thanks to a cosmic impact https://t.co/sP0cAHWCnD@Graham__Hancock @SacredGeoInt — Joe Rogan (@joerogan) February 2, 2018 Research suggests toward end of Ice Age, humans witnessed fires larger than dinosaur killer, thanks to a cosmic impact Credit: University of Kansas On a ho-hum day some 12,800 years […]

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Are asteroids humanity’s ‘greatest challenge’?

Are asteroids humanity’s ‘greatest challenge’?

Are asteroids humanity’s ‘greatest challenge’? June 28, 2017 by Mariëtte Le Roux via Phys.org Throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummelled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash in the ocean to species annihilation. When the next big impact will be, nobody knows. But the pressure is on to predict—and intercept—its arrival. “Sooner or […]

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