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Moon’s battered crust reveals tumultuous past

New images of the Moon’s battered crust point to a violent past in which it was battered by comets and asteroids during its first billion years, US scientists say. The new findings come from the GRAIL mission, a pair of spacecraft named Ebb and Flow that are orbiting the Moon…

Twin NASA probes approach lunar orbit

Twin NASA spacecraft are set to blast into lunar orbit at the weekend on a mission to study the subterranean structure of the Moon in order to better understand the origins of planets. The first Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL-A) will begin orbiting the Moon at 2121 GMT on…