Mass discovered below Moon's South Pole

[Nanfeishen]

The South Pole-Aitken basin — the largest crater in the Solar System — is a gigantic impact structure on the far side of the Moon. Data from NASA’s lunar spacecraft point to the existence of a large excess of mass — about 2.18*1018 kg — in the lunar mantle under the basin. According to new research, this mass anomaly may contain metal from a massive asteroid that crashed into the Moon and formed the crater.

“Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That’s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected,” said Dr. Peter B. James, a planetary researcher with Baylor University and the Lunar and Planetary Institute.

http://www.sci-news.com/space/south-pole-aitken-basin-mass-anomaly-07275.html

 

[Tabac]

Might be gold or platinum......

 

[TheSlinger]

Maybe it's the crash site of the Götterdämmerung.

 

[Ninja'd]

Mass discovered below Moon's South Pole

Told you this would happen if we send Catholics out there.

 

[mercurial]

Announce Aliens.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Maybe it's the crash site of the Götterdämmerung.

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Its definitely this...

The Moon Nazi's are biding their time.

 

[Gordon_R]

That story broke several weeks ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48285503

The Chinese Chang'e-4 rover may have confirmed a longstanding idea about the origin of a vast crater on the Moon's far side.

The rover's landing site lies within a vast impact depression created by an asteroid strike billions of years ago.

Now, mission scientists have found evidence that impact was so powerful it punched through the Moon's crust and into the layer below called the mantle.

Chang'e-4 has identified what appear to be mantle rocks on the surface.

It's something the rover was sent to the far side to find out.

Chunlai Li, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and colleagues have presented their findings in the journal Nature.

The rover landed inside a 180km-wide impact bowl called Von Kármán crater. But that smaller crater lies within the 2,300km-wide South Pole Aitken (SPA) Basin, which covers nearly a quarter of the Moon's circumference.

 

[TheMightyQuin]

http://www.sci-news.com/space/south-pole-aitken-basin-mass-anomaly-07275.html

It's BENEATH ...not BELOW...FFS....

 

[Nanfeishen]

It's BENEATH ...not BELOW...FFS....

Its UNDER ,,,, BELOW ,,,, UNDERNEATH ,,,,, BENEATH ,,,,,, - the surface -- pick one

BELOW - synonyms : beneath, under, underneath

 

[TheMightyQuin]

Its UNDER ,,,, BELOW ,,,, UNDERNEATH ,,,,, BENEATH ,,,,,, - the surface -- pick one

BELOW - synonyms : beneath, under, underneath

Unfortunately for you "the surface" was not in that heading, now was it?

That is the whole point....

 

[bandooq]

That story broke several weeks ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48285503

Is this article suggesting that the source of the metal in the crater could be from an asteroid strike?

 

[ArmatageShanks]

The moon has cancer?

 

[Meelperd]

The moon has cancer?

 

[Gordon_R]

Is this article suggesting that the source of the metal in the crater could be from an asteroid strike?

Sorry, confused two different stories about the same crater...

BTW, almost all of the large craters on the moon contain concentrations of mass. Since the moon is geologically stable, the assumption is that they came from impacts. These were discovered during the Apollo missions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_...)#Effect_of_lunar_mascons_on_satellite_orbits

 

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[LazyLion]

The moon has breast cancer!