Scientists have learned about massive asteroid collisions with the Moon

Leading researcher Associate Professor Katarina Milkovic said that the craters on the Moon could look completely

otherwise, if they arose when the Moon was onlyformed and was still hot. Large impact craters were formed during the solidification of magma, this happened more than four billion years ago. These are different types of craters that can be used to trace the history of the Moon.

The young Moon formed from a global oceanmagma that has cooled over millions of years. Therefore, when asteroids and other bodies crashed into the softer surface of the satellite, no serious imprints were left on it. This makes it difficult to obtain information about that early period. 

The timing of solidification of lunar magma has not been determinedspecifically, but presumably it was a long period of time, during which several large bombardments of asteroids occurred at once. As the Moon ages and the surface cools, impact imprints become more visible during probing. 

The authors of the new work compared several approaches tohistory of the Moon and modeling of various asteroid bombardments. As a result, they found that there may be no evidence of the earliest asteroid impacts on the Moon. 

Despite this, the authors managed to recover information about this period: it turned out that the Moon was actually bombarded by asteroids. 

The authors of the new work believe that studying the history of the early Moon will help to understand how the Earth was formed and developed. 

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