The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size to Earth’s Grand Canyon, are hidden on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away from Earth — near the lunar south pole ...

The research shows that lunar canyons the size of Earth’s Grand Canyon can form in minutes rather than millions of years. Impact-generated streams of rock on the Moon are far more capable of ...

A canyon is a deep, narrow valley with steep ... may have similar craters formed by massive impacts. The study “Grand canyons on the Moon” was published in Nature Communications https ...

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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.

The Schrödinger impact crater sits near to the Moon’s south pole ... and Vallis Planck — each comparable in size to the Grand Canyon here on Earth. These were formed when debris, thrown ...

While the Grand Canyon took millions of years to form, the two grand canyons on the Moon were carved in less than 10 minutes." The impacting asteroid or comet likely hit the lunar surface with a ...