The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size to Earth’s Grand Canyon, are hidden on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away from Earth — near the lunar south pole ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

That's good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing ...

U.S. and British scientists used photos and data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate ... the pole mostly on the moon's near side won't be buried under debris ...

So we studied an impact crater on the far side of the moon near the South Pole ... and data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate the path of debris that produced ...

This discovery is promising for scientists and NASA, which plans to land astronauts at the south pole on the near side of the Moon. This region ... spacecraft to map the canyons and applied ...

Two such lunar canyons, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, stretch over 270 km (168 miles) each, with depths of 2.7 km ...

They used images obtained by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to carefully map the crater ... but smaller canyons on the near side of the moon that's visible in the night sky.