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Southward Impact Excavated Magma Ocean at Moon’s Biggest Crater: Study


Roughly 4.3 billion years ago, when our Solar System was still in its infancy, a giant asteroid slammed into the far side of the Moon, blasting an enormous crater referred to as the South Pole-Aitken basin.

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