About 3.8 billion years ago, two huge canyons were formed on the moon for less than 10 minutes, while the Grand Cannon was sculpted by the Colorado River over a period of 6-7 million years, according to a new study, according to CNN .

The canyons, each of which is comparable to Size with Grand Canyonare located in the Schredinger Crater area, a 320km wide crater, where NASA’s Artemis III mission aims to land people in late 2026, for the first time since 1972.

Their creation is due to the impact with a large asteroid, due to which fragments were launched. The launched fragments created by the canyons were probably found above the surface of the Moon and then collided with it at speeds of about 2,237 miles per hour (3,600 kilometers per hour).

This means that each fragment could be up to 1,250 meters in size more than 60 times larger than Celiabinsk’s meteorite exploded over Russia in 2013.

The energy released from the impact, which created the canyons, was 1,200 to 2,200 times more powerful than that of the nuclear explosion that was once planned to excavate a second Panama channel, the study’s authors estimate.

This is the gorge named Vallis schrödinger270 km long and 2.7 km deep and the Vallis planck280 km long and 3.5 km deep while the maximum depth of Grand Cannon is 1.8 km.

The importance of the study and the future impact

The research team behind the latest report was able to analyze images of huge geological features using altitude photos and data recorded by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of NASA, which has been turning the moon since 2009.

Future missions They could visit this crater and take samples of rocks to help scientists better understand the origin and history of the moon. The moon’s study could also reveal what the conditions were in the early years of the solar system, as asteroids and other rocky debris collided with planets and moons.

“The archive of the early bumps of the Solar System has been deleted from the Earth“Said the lead author of the study Dr. David KRING, Mr. Scientist at Lunar and Planetary Institute, an Institute of the Universities Space Research Union. “It was destroyed by erosion, plaque tectonics and other geological processes. If we want (to) understand how the impact events have influenced early earth, we must collect samples from places on the Moon such as the Schreedinger Crater and its canyons“