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Spanning 25 miles in diameter, this crater is three times the size of the Grand Canyon, making it the largest known impact site in the U.S. and the 15th largest on Earth.
Shackleton crater spans roughly 12.4 miles wide (20 km) and 2.6 miles deep (1.3 km), making it deeper than the Grand Canyon, according to the Center for Lunar Science and Exploration. Sign up for ...
The LRO's latest mosaic of Shackleton Crater is proof of this in action. At 12.4 miles (20 km) across, few craters visible on land on Earth even come close. Of course, we're talking about ...
The lunar Grand Canyon: Our moon has two gigantic basins that were carved out in just 10 MINUTES (despite being even bigger than the one in Arizona!) ...
Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object slammed into the moon 3.8 billion years ago. CNN values your feedback 1.
It only took less than 10 minutes. Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks traveling as fast as bullets, a ...
Jutting off in straight lines from a massive crater like two bilby ears near the Moon's South Pole, is a pair of valleys similar to the Grand Canyon in size. But while the Grand Canyon was etched ...
The amount of energy needed to produce these grand canyons on the moon is 1200–2200 times larger than "the nuclear explosion energy once planned to excavate a second Panama Canal on Earth, more ...
Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object slammed into the moon 3.8 billion years ago. CNN values your feedback 1.
Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks traveling as fast as bullets, a new study finds.