The moon's heavily cratered surface serves as a testament to how Earth's closest celestial neighbor has become a figurative magnet for space rocks during its 4.5 billion-year history.

One of the best examples of this phenomenon is the moon's largest impact feature, the South Pole-Aitken Basin.

The basin is located in a region where NASA astronauts are due to land as early as 2027, presenting an opportunity to collect some samples to return to Earh, researchers claim.

American astronauts who return to the moon's surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a permanent human lunar settlement.

That may be the primary objective for spacefarers in NASA's Artemis lunar program, but it won

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