Grail satellites show Moon's violent history

[dipsydoodle]

The scale of the battering the Moon received early in its history has been revealed in remarkable new data from two Nasa satellites.

Ebb and Flow - together known as the Grail mission - have mapped the subtle variations in gravity across the surface of the lunar body.

They show the Moon's crust to be a mass of pulverised rock - the remains of countless impacts.

Scientists say the beating was far more extensive than previously thought.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20617506

[dmallind]

1. My God! The patriarchy has been violating the moon for aeons!

It's no wonder menstrual cycles are so out of whack...

[Occulus]

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[struggle4progress]

2. Gravity map reveals scars from the moon's violent formative years

Regions of the moon's crust exerting the strongest gravitational pull are shown in red, and the weakest are shown in blue ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/dec/06/gravity-map-moon-formative-years

Link to video available via link above

[Odin2005]

3. This is likely why there are no Earth rocks older than 4 billion years.

Because of Earth's larger size and higher gravity compared to the Moon it would have been pummeled even worse than the Moon was.