Moon’s craters give new clues to early solar system bombardment

This article is about a Brown research team that was able to give clues to the bombardment of the early solar system. The research team mapped and identified more than five thousand large craters. The craters represent the intense impact that the moon faced in its earlier years of existence. The moon's craters have always given astronomers a better understanding of the early years of the solar system. The Brown team performed the first uniform and comprehensive catalog of the moons craters. They also determined that the southern near side and northern far side are the oldest parts of the moon. Early in the lifetime of the moon, it faced many larger projectile impacts than it did as time passed.