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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2015, @11:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2015, @11:09PM (#160609)

    you can see heaps of craters with a fairly cheap refractive telescope. if you have decent vision you might even be able to see a few with a pair of binoculars

    reflective telescopes are the shit though. if you have one of those, i'm jealous... even moreso if you live away from cities where light pollution allows you to see more stuff