Future astronauts could walk across rocks from deep inside the Moon

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A colossal ancient collision may have left some of the Moon’s deepest secrets surprisingly close to future Artemis landing sites. By recreating the impact that formed the giant South Pole-Aitken basin, the Moon’s largest and oldest crater, scientists found that a low-angle strike from a large, iron-cored object blasted material from deep inside the Moon, including mantle rocks.