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Curious places in Moon
3 articles, each fact-checked and tied to a spot you can stand on.
scienceOrientale Basin
The Moon's 930-Kilometer BullseyeMassive impacts create mysterious concentric mountain rings extending far beyond the crater itself. Orientale has three rings spanning 930 kilometers. How impacts generate structures larger than the hole remains unsolved.
scienceLunar Surface
The Moon's Invisible Gravity BumpsDense masses beneath lunar impact basins that cause gravitational anomalies, but their composition and why they haven't sunk to the core remains unclear.
scienceSouthern Highlands
Tycho's 108-Million-Year-Old ScarsBright streaks radiating 1,500 kilometers from Tycho crater, visible with the naked eye during full moon. These rays haven't darkened in 108 million years because the Moon has no atmosphere to weather them.
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