The Moon Puts on Camo
31 Aug 2010, 05:56 UTC
NASA
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A new geologic map of the moon's Schrödinger basin paints an instant, camouflage-colored portrait of what a mash-up the moon's surface is after eons of violent events.
The geologic record at Schrödinger is still relatively fresh because the basin is only about 3.8 billion years old; this makes it the moon's second-youngest large basin (it's roughly 320 kilometers, or 200 miles, in diameter).
Schrödinger is located near the moon's south pole, a region where pockets of permanent ice a [...]
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