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Nancy Atkinson, and ,Universe Today

One massive Moon feature could be the key to unlocking its entire history


The South Pole-Aitken Basin on the Moon formed from a gigantic impact about 4.3 billion years ago. But that impact may have changed everything about the Moon and explained why the lunar farside looks so different from the nearside, the side we see from Earth.

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