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NASA finds record-size fresh crater on the moon from 2024 impact

Researchers describe impacts as 'gardening' the lunar surface

2 Sep 16 2:00 PM · 7d ago · 4 articles · 1 post · 2 sources · development 2 of 3

Co-author David Paige and lead author Mark Robinson explain that such impacts churn buried material to the surface faster than previously thought, overturning the moon's top inch of soil roughly every 80,000 years, and that Apollo footprints will eventually be erased.

Researchers describe impacts as 'gardening' the lunar surface
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“We're now thinking of impacts as a way to garden the regolith — churning the sediments and putting stuff above that's usually below the surface”

David Paige

Mark Robinson Chief scientist, LRO camera systemDavid Paige Co-author, UCLARobert Wagner Image-processing specialist, Intuitive Machines/LRONASA Space agency operating the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

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