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A piece of the Moon found in Africa has the youngest date known for a lunar rock, 2.865 billion years. This age is several hundred million years younger than the youngest mare basalt and about a billion years younger than any other lunar rock of its kind.
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The most obvious feature is the crater with its slumped walls, central peak, and the ejecta blanket and rays that extend beyond. This crater is considered the "type locality" for impact structures on the Moon. Apollo 11 astronauts photographed ... Ages of some major lunar features; oldest is 0.0 and youngest is 6.0.
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rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect19/Sect19_5.html
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lunar highlands ... Which of these lunar features is the oldest? ... The youngest craters are marked by:
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www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/Exams/202EXAMS/planets.htm
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Read about the Moon in your textbook and get a feel for the appearance of different types of feature. Lunar features come in the following types. ... We have no radioactive dates for features of most of the bodies in the solar system. We do think that the feature on top, is the youngest. When features do not overlap,
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voyager.dvc.edu/faculty/kcastle/Planetary%20Features.ht...
voyager.dvc.edu/faculty/kcastle/Planetary%20Features.htm
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The research titled, “Prolonged KREEP magmatism on the Moon indicated by the youngest dated lunar rock,” was featured in Nature magazine recently. “We use geochronology to date lunar and Martian meteorites,” said Borg.
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But here we present evidence that KREEP magmatism extended for an additional 1 Gyr, based on analyses of the youngest dated lunar sample. ... Anatomy of Lunar Magic...
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www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nature03070
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What Scott found boosted geologists’ hunch that the oldest lunar crust consisted largely of anorthosite. ... As early as 1946, Robert Dietz had called attention to the nickel-bearing Sudbury structure in Ontario as a feature that could have been formed by meteorite impact in Proterozoic time. In July 1971,
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www.geotimes.org/aug00/lunarfeature.html
www.geotimes.org/aug00/lunarfeature.html
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13. Describe the surface features on the Moon. What are the oldest regions? What are the youngest regions? How are the relative ages of the various features determined? How are their absolute ... 1. A feature of the Jovian planets is that ... 26. Compared with the side of the Moon facing the Earth, the lunar backside has...
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zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/121/exam2/review.x2.html
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These two images, subsets of M104670019L (with a solar incidence at an angle of 50.2°) and M107035386L (incidence angle 24.6°) illustrate effects of illumination, or phase angle, in recognizing different aspects of the same feature on the lunar surface.
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lunarnetworks.blogspot.com/
lunarnetworks.blogspot.com/
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