{"id":135340,"date":"2024-12-10T05:50:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T22:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135340"},"modified":"2024-12-10T05:50:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T22:50:50","slug":"the-moons-oldest-crater-is-super-round-and-thats-great-news-for-nasas-artemis-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135340","title":{"rendered":"The moon&#8217;s oldest crater is super round &#8211; and that&#8217;s great news for NASA&#8217;s Artemis astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon&#8217;s oldest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, may be round, as opposed to the oval shape than scientists previously believed it to be.<\/p>\n<p>The circular diameter means the impact that created the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/moon-oldest-impact-basin-dated\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/moon-oldest-impact-basin-dated\">South Pole-Aitken basin<\/a>, which stretches nearly 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/moon-far-side-mystery-may-be-solved.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/moon-far-side-mystery-may-be-solved.html\">far side of the moon<\/a>, may have been much deeper. This new understanding could give scientists important geological resources that reveal early lunar history.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-nest\" data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"\/>\n<p>Scientists studying <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html\">the moon<\/a> have long thought that the object that struck the moon and created the crater hit at a sharp angle, like stone skipping over water. So, how was it that scientists possibly mistook the shape of one of the moon&#8217;s most famous features?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s challenging to study the South Pole-Aitken basin holistically due to its sheer enormousness, which is why scientists are still trying to learn its shape and size,&#8221; Hannes Bernhardt, an assistant research scientist in University of Maryland&#8217;s Department of Geology who led the study, said <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1067309\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1067309\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>in a statement<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition, four billion years have passed since the basin was originally formed and many other impacts have obscured its original appearance,&#8221; Bernhardt continued. &#8220;Our work challenges many existing ideas about how this massive impact occurred and distributed materials, but we are now a step closer to better understand the moon&#8217;s early history and evolution over time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The research draws on data gathered by NASA&#8217;s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22106-lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22106-lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter.html\"><u>Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/u><\/a>. Bernhardt and his team used the data to find and analyze more than 200 mountain-shaped formations that are scattered around the South Pole-Aitken basin.<\/p>\n<p>The shape of the formations, as well as the distance from one another, signify a more rounded crater that would be created from a vertical impact, &#8220;possibly similar to dropping a rock straight down onto the ground,&#8221; Bernhardt said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-r25m7KTbLKnqhDRNFpWv37\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-r25m7KTbLKnqhDRNFpWv37 slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA plans to send astronauts close to the moon&#8217;s south pole again as part of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-program.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-program.html\"><u>Artemis missions<\/u><\/a>, with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-2-humans-moon-orbit\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-2-humans-moon-orbit\"><u>Artemis 2<\/u><\/a>, the first mission of its kind since 1972, set to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/artemis\/nasa-delays-artemis-2-moon-mission-to-april-2026-artemis-3-lunar-landing-to-mid-2027#:~:text=NASA%20announced%20today%20(Dec.%205,now%20scheduled%20for%20mid-2027.\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/artemis\/nasa-delays-artemis-2-moon-mission-to-april-2026-artemis-3-lunar-landing-to-mid-2027#:~:text=NASA%20announced%20today%20(Dec.%205,now%20scheduled%20for%20mid-2027.\"><u>bring astronauts to the lunar surface in April 2026<\/u><\/a>. Bernhardt believes that this new research could hold &#8220;significant implications&#8221; for the upcoming Artemis missions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This circular impact implies that debris from the impact is more equally distributed around it than was originally thought,&#8221; Bernardt said, &#8220;which means that Artemis astronauts or robots in the South Pole region may be able to closely study rocks from deep within the moon&#8217;s mantle or crust \u2014 materials that are typically impossible for us to access.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previous research published in October in Nature Astronomy dated the South Pole-Aitken basin to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/moon-oldest-impact-basin-dated\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/moon-oldest-impact-basin-dated\"><u>between 4.32 and 4.33 billion years old<\/u><\/a>. In that study, researchers determined the basin&#8217;s age by dating uranium and lead that was found inside the Northwest Africa 2995 lunar meteorite, which was discovered in Algeria in 2005.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/the-universe\/moon\/the-shape-of-the-moons-oldest-crater-could-impact-nasas-artemis-missions-heres-how\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon&#8217;s oldest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, may be round, as opposed to the oval shape than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135340\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}