Dings on the Moon
Oct 06, 2021
2 minutes
by Diana Hannikainen
We’ve all seen bits of comet dust self-immolate as they plow into Earth’s atmosphere during meteor showers. But did you know that bits of dust ping the Moon as well? Meteoroids — to give them their official name — that hit the Moon have no medium in which to burn up and instead slam full-throttle into the lunar surface. In so doing, they carve out a
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