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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Moon's crust as fractured as can be

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have identified regions on the far side of the moon, called the lunar highlands, that may have been so heavily bombarded -- particularly by small asteroids -- that the impacts completely shattered the upper crust, leaving these regions essentially as fractured and porous as they could be.

from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily http://ift.tt/1UEH4po
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