The far side of the Moon has its own versions of the Grand Canyon—two of them, in fact! A new study explains how these deep ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

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A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a ...

But even more mind-boggling is to contemplate the forces that created the Grand Canyon-sized gouges of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck on the Moon — in roughly 10 minutes. These immense ...

A vast impact crater near the moon’s south pole was formed by an ... For comparison, the Grand Canyon in Arizona is 446 km long and up to 1.9 km deep. But while that was carved by water over ...

Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks ...

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 ...

Read the full story 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 ...

About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon ... Grand Canyon, and taken several river trips through the Grand Canyon, so I realized the Grand Canyon was an important ...