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Written by: Arty Goodwin, University of Manchester When a huge meteor or comet hits into Earth, the resultant impact is similar to a huge explosion! Meteor collisions carve out craters into solid rock, scooping out and ejecting material over the … Continue reading
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Recently, we have been involved in a couple of studies of tiny glass droplets recovered from soil samples returned from the Moon in December 2020 by the China National Space Agency Chang’e-5 mission. These melt droplets are impact glass beads, … Continue reading
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The Moon’s surface is absolutely covered in impact craters. These range in size from the behemoth South Pole-Aitken basin, which is a staggeringly ~2500 km in diameter and 13 km deep, all the way down to microscopic impact craters on … Continue reading
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