NASA's GRAIL mission sheds light on the origin of the Procellarum basin on the Moon

ENN
Oct 1, 2014, 3:24 pm16 pts
New data obtained by NASA's GRAIL mission reveals that the Procellarum region on the near side of the moon - a giant basin often referred to as the "man in the moon" - likely arose not from a massive asteroid strike, but from a large plume of magma deep within the moon's interior. The Procellarum region is a…

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