NASA Finds Evidence Of Moon's Hidden Valleys
- 10 years ago
NASA has found evidence of a large rectangular valley under the surface of our moon.
NASA has found evidence of a large rectangular valley under the surface of our moon.
Working with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on what is known as the Grail mission launched in 2012, two satellites were used to map out the moon, and ended up discovering the buried rift valleys.
Grail mission satellites located the feature, which measured more than 15 hundred miles wide, within the center in the Procellarum region of the moon.
Professor Jeffery Andrews-Hanna of the Colorado School of Mines is quoted as saying: “This rectangular structure covers a larger fraction of the surface area of the Moon than do North America, Europe and Asia combined on the Earth.”
It is believed that the valleys were formed by the cooling of the moon’s surface, which caused it to shrink and break apart.
Experts studying the rifts think that they used to be filled with lava.
Based on evidence from moon rocks collected by the Apollo mission, the filling of the valley likely dates back about three and a half billion years.
NASA has found evidence of a large rectangular valley under the surface of our moon.
Working with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on what is known as the Grail mission launched in 2012, two satellites were used to map out the moon, and ended up discovering the buried rift valleys.
Grail mission satellites located the feature, which measured more than 15 hundred miles wide, within the center in the Procellarum region of the moon.
Professor Jeffery Andrews-Hanna of the Colorado School of Mines is quoted as saying: “This rectangular structure covers a larger fraction of the surface area of the Moon than do North America, Europe and Asia combined on the Earth.”
It is believed that the valleys were formed by the cooling of the moon’s surface, which caused it to shrink and break apart.
Experts studying the rifts think that they used to be filled with lava.
Based on evidence from moon rocks collected by the Apollo mission, the filling of the valley likely dates back about three and a half billion years.