There’s An Enormous, Mysterious Mass Under the Moon’s Largest Crater

What is it?

By Korey Haynes
Jun 11, 2019 6:58 PMFeb 22, 2020 2:29 AM
South Pole-Aitken basin Moon - NASA
The South Pole-Aitken basin shows up clearly as low-lying blue in a topographical map of the moon, with the newly discovered mass located underneath the dotted line. (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona)

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Buried under the largest, oldest crater on the moon, scientists have discovered an enormous mass of dense material, possibly the remains of the asteroid that formed the crater some 4 billion years ago.

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