Biggest, deepest crater exposes hidden, ancient moon

Friday, March 19, 2010 - 09:43 in Astronomy & Space

Shortly after the Moon formed, an asteroid smacked into its southern hemisphere and gouged out a truly enormous crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, almost 1,500 miles across and more than five miles deep...

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