Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which are each about the size of Earth’s Grand Canyon. By Kenneth Chang ...

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Two grand canyons on the moon radiating from the Schrödinger impact basin, from a view that looks obliquely across the lunar surface, like an astronaut in an approaching spacecraft. (Ernie T.

NASA / SVS / Ernest T. Wright It didn’t take long for the moon to get its grand canyons. Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck are two long channels near the lunar south pole. The canyons ...

Now, researchers say two unusually narrow and straight canyons that splay out from its centre were formed in less than 10 minutes by a chain of secondary debris impacts. David Kring at the Lunar ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes. The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but ...

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