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The Search for the Impact That Cratered Ancient Scotland

Nola Taylor Redd, Science Writer by Nola Taylor Tillman 12 July 201928 January 2022

Great Britain’s largest impact crater likely lies in the Scottish Highlands. Scientists dispute whether it’s to the west or the east.

A view from Lunar Orbiter 4 of the Orientale basin on the Moon.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How the Moon Got Its Concentric Rings

by E. Underwood 16 April 201928 March 2023

A new study explores the origins of massive, multiringed lunar craters.

Detail of craters on Pluto’s moon Charon
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Pluto’s and Charon’s Craters Reveal a Solar System Deficit

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 1 March 20196 January 2023

The New Horizons spacecraft recorded images of craters that imply an unexpected dearth of small objects in the Kuiper Belt.

The Moon during the 21 January total lunar eclipse with a visible impact flash
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A Meteor Struck the Moon During the Total Lunar Eclipse

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 23 January 201930 August 2022

Telescopes around the world detected an impact event on the lunar surface just before totality on Monday. Amateur and professional astronomers are starting to coordinate data.

Jezero crater delta and its minerology
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Martian Crater Will Be the Landing Site for a Future Rover

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 30 November 201817 January 2023

The impact crater is a dry lake bed that contains evidence of ancient water flows and perhaps signs of ancient microbial life.

Artist’s impression of asteroids about to impact Greenland
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Enormous Impact Crater Spotted in Greenland Under Glacial Ice

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 20 November 20181 October 2021

Ice-penetrating radar revealed a 31-kilometer impact crater—one of the world’s largest—in northwestern Greenland that might have been formed fewer than 20,000 years ago.

Moon’s Schrödinger crater
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New Simulation Supports Chicxulub Impact Scenario

Bas den Hond, Science Writer by Bas den Hond 27 April 201814 March 2023

Mountains ringing the center of Earth’s most famous impact crater consist of porous rocks. Computer models of the impact can now predict those rocks’ microstructure.

Mare Crisium, a large impact large basin on Earth’s Moon.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Moon’s Magnetic Field May Magnetize Iron That Hits Its Surface

by S. Witman 23 February 201820 December 2021

Scientists are using satellite data to study large impact basins on the surface of the Moon that contain magnetic anomalies.

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Long Term Preservation of Subsurface Ice on Mars

by Steven A. Hauck, II 14 February 201828 January 2022

Layered-ejecta craters on Mars that are associated with impacts into rock mixed with volatiles have been formed throughout the planet’s history indicating the long-term preservation of subsurface ice.

Researchers examine mudstone in Mars’s Gale crater to unravel the history of liquid surface water
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History of Water on Mars’s Surface Is Longer Than We Thought

by Terri Cook 2 February 20183 January 2023

Curiosity’s two-step heating experiment of mudstone at Gale crater reveals minerals that formed in the presence of water less than 3 billion years ago.

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