Scientists Discover 2 “New” Craters On The Moon

A Scientists team discovered two geologically craters where one is 16 million years old and other is between 75-420 million years in the darkest regions of Moon.

“These ‘young’ impact craters are a really exciting discovery,” said senior research scientist D Kathleen Mandt. He is from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) that is located in Texas.

Scientists Discover 2 New Craters On The Moon

Finding the geological yound craters and honing which helped us understand the collision history in solar system she said. An important roleis palyed by collisions in space in the formation of solar system which also include the formation of Moon.

History of the Impact craters is shown by collisions between objects in solar system. As our Moon peppered with impacts in the past its surface serves as a record.

“Discovering these two craters and a new way to detect young craters in the most mysterious regions of the Moon is particularly exciting,” the authors stated in the journal Icarus.

Not only on Moon this method is also useful on other interesting bodies, including mercury, and other small planets Ceres and the asteroid Vesta.

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