Crater impact age is more determinable on the moon compared to earth
because earth still undergoes weathering and erosion processes that
recycle the oldest of materials. On the moon however, very little, if
any occurs. The rims may have some weathering due to
additional impacts, but for the most part what was there then when moon
was in a major bombardment stage, it is there now.
Though, it does
bug me a bit that up until a decade or so ago, we realized that the
moon's rock samples and other data collections were localized to the
near side and major impact craters. This definitely limits the
scientific data and opens our critical thinking hypotheses.
Why do
they believe that the meteorites found in Antartica and other Southern
Hemisphere areas came from the moon? And were different composition than
what the Apollo Missions collected? Is is because Antarctica is not
populated except by those penguins and a few brave souls?
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