Until recently, it was believed that the ‘man in the noon’ — the craters that give the moon its human-like features — had been created by asteroid strikes
Now, thanks to data from NASA’s GRAIL mission, which aims to create a high-res map of the moon’s gravitational field, scientists have a new theory on how the moon got its “face.”
NASA has two spacecrafts in a polar orbit around the moon, offering researchers an in-depth look at the internal and external structures of the moon — including the craters.
“As the lunar shape varies, its gravity field changes and we’re able to observe that,” explains GRAIL project scientist Michael Watkins in a NASA video. Read more…
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