Our moon is full of cracks, basins and old lava flows. But two great lunar cannons have the same origin: a single giant impact.
February 11, 2025
Both astronomically and geologically, our moon has long been one of the most fascinating objects for all humanity. With giant mountains, rich matrices of craters, old lava basins and more, tells a very different story to the earth: an without volcanoes, oceans, climate, an atmosphere or tectonics of active plates to erase impressions on its surface. Unlike the Earth, where our surface is geologically very young, many characteristics on the Moon have billions of years, with some characteristics that date more than four billion years: almost the first moments in the history of our system solar.
And yet, there are some similar aspects between our world and our smallest complementary world: giant cannons. Here on Earth, characteristics such as the Grand Canyon were carved with water that flows for many millions of years, with the release of huge water stores, previously stopped by ice dams during the ice age of our planet, responsible for the most of the canyon width and depth. But on the moon, there is no liquid water on the surface, and there was probably never. However, many long and long channels and valleys …
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