craters
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A Massive Impact Crater Has Been Detected Beneath Greenland’s Ice Sheet
An unusually large asteroid crater measuring 31km wide has been discovered under a continental ice sheet in Greenland. Roughly the size of Paris, it’s now among the 25 biggest asteroid craters on Earth.
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Our Closest View Yet Of Ceres’ Strange Bright Spots Finally Reveals How They Formed
We have a good idea of what those bright spots on Ceres are, but the question of how they got there remains mysterious. Now, an incredibly low-altitude image of the dwarf planet reveals details about their origins.
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Planetary Scientists Are Officially Done Finding Craters On Earth
Science is meant to be an unceasing, always-sceptical search for knowledge, so it’s not often that scientists can call it a day, declare a problem all scienced out, and move on. But that’s exactly what the team counting asteroid craters on Earth are doing.
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Is Our Moon Actually Two Moons That Smashed Into Each Other?
Some scientists are starting to believe that our moon is actually the result of a mid-air space collision of two moons. They say that the two-moon theory could explain why each side of the moon is so different from the other.