Researchers studying
the evolution of impact craters on Earth and other rocky bodies discovered an
interesting object for research on the moon.
Scientists engaged in
the crater of lunar who is in the region known as the lunar Sea of
Tranquility. The crater is only 2.2 kilometers in diameter, but it is very
young - formed only 10 million years ago - and well-preserved.
Craters on the Moon is
less susceptible to erosion than on Earth, where they have permanent damaging
effects of water and wind, but the crater Linnet is very well preserved, even
to the moon, the researchers say, he shows no signs of changing its initial
shape under the influence of subsequent major collision Space Objects.
Scientists were
surprised by the unusual shape of the crater - usually simple lunar craters are
a bowl, but the crater Linnet was inverted cone.
Studies were performed
using Lunar Spacecraft NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched in June 2009
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