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GRAND CANYONS OF THE MOON

In a significant discovery, a team of scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), an institute of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), found that two immense canyons hidden in the lunar far side are similar in width and depth to the Earth’s Grand Canyon. The findings were published today in Nature Communications. Artistic rendering of astronauts standing on the…