Moon's South Pole-Aitken Basin Age

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Chang'e-6 samples suggest 4.25-billion-year-old impact formed moon's South Pole–Aitken basin

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South PoleAitken ( SPA ) basin is the largest and oldest known impact crater on the lunar surface.

It is believed to have formed during a period of intense asteroid bombardment that shaped much of the solar system within its first few hundred million years.

The exact age of the SPA basin has remained elusive, hindering efforts to understand its role in lunar and planetary history.

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