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Scientists believe that about 4 billion years ago, during a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, the moon took a severe beating, as an army of asteroids pelted its surface, carving out craters and opening deep fissures in its crust.
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Apr 18, 2019 · The new study finds asteroids as small as 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) in diameter can fracture lunar crust into meter-sized blocks down to depths of ...
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Nov 15, 2012 · These floor fractures are the result of a cold shallow crust containing the crater overriding warmer, less viscous deeper material.
Oct 12, 2010 · The wall of Slipher crater is deformed by one of many scarps found in the lunar highlands, which are thought to form as the Moon shrinks due to ...
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Dec 6, 2012 · The data have also shown that the lunar crust is less dense and more fractured by massive impacts than had previously been thought. The mission ...
Aug 22, 2013 · Lunar geologists propose two major formation mechanisms for crater floor fractures: intrusive magmatic activity and viscous relaxation.
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Compression data of lunar igneous rocks show that the lithostatic pressures encountered in the crust and upper mantle are insufficient to close all fractures.
Floor-fractured craters (FFCs) are a class of 170 lunar craters characterized by their anomalously shallow, fracture-covered floors. First described in detail ...
Dec 5, 2012 · The discovery that the moon's crust is deeply fractured came from a pair of small probes that comprise NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior ...
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5) and have lower magma overpressures which would cause the overlying thicker crust to flex, but not fracture into piston-like uplift. Thus this study supports ...