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Probes unveil three hidden blemishes on moon’s face

moon map

Maps of the moon generated from gravity data gathered by the GRAIL spacecraft include three previously undiscovered lunar basins, Bartels-Voskresenskiy, Copernicus-H and Asperitatis.

G.A. Neumann et al/Science Advances 2015 (CC BY-NC 4.0)

By Thomas Sumner

- More than 2 years ago

Gravitational tugs on a pair of spacecraft have revealed previously unseen blemishes on the moon’s face.