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Discovery of a Massive, 198 Kilometer-Wide Crater on the Moon

posted by janrinok on Friday March 20 2015, @01:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the it-was-there,-hiding,-all-the-time dept.

kaszz writes:

The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference announced on 2015-03-16 that a 198 km wide crater has been found on the moon using the GRAIL spacecraft that uses gravitational field mapping. This enabled the discovery of craters below the surface. It's been named the Earhart crater. Nice gravitational photos can be found in the links.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2015, @05:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2015, @05:06PM (#160476)

    Doesn't the word "photo", quite literally, imply the involvement of light? "Gravitational images" would be more appropriate.

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