A giant impact 3.8 billion years ago sent a curtain of rock flying away from a point near the moon’s south pole. When that curtain fell, its rocks plunged up to 3.5 kilometers into the lunar surface ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about ten minutes. That's ...

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It didn’t take long for the moon to get its grand canyons. Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck are two long channels near the lunar south pole. The canyons, each more than 160 miles long and around ...

Providence Canyon State Park in Georgia features colorful, 150-foot gullies. Hiking is the main activity, with popular trails along the rim and canyon floor offering close views of the layered soil.

About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes, according to new research. The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size to ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes. The moon's grand canyons were carved in the blink of an eye The Grand Canyon in Arizona ...

The Schrödinger impact crater near the lunar south pole features two long canyons close by: Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck. NASA / SVS / Ernest T. Wright It didn’t take long for the moon to get ...