RAYS of INSPIRATION
he face of the Moon today records hundreds of millions of years’ worth of asteroid and comet impacts – its disc is peppered with countless craters and large basins, where immense collisions punched deep into the lunar crust. But scattered across the Moon’s pockmarked highlands and smooth basalt seas emanating from some craters are also striking, bright features. They are cosmic splashes of rock and dust that give a hint of the dynamic and tumultuous past
