{"id":205617,"date":"2025-02-05T10:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/10-minutes-of-violence-gave-the-moon-its-very-own-grand-canyons"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:22:23","slug":"10-minutes-of-violence-gave-the-moon-its-very-own-grand-canyons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/10-minutes-of-violence-gave-the-moon-its-very-own-grand-canyons","title":{"rendered":"10 Minutes of Violence Gave The Moon Its Very Own \u2018Grand Canyons\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5PPFAUYhxRw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Arizona\u2019s magnificent Grand Canyon is painstaking result of the Colorado River\u2019s current wearing away the planet\u2019s surface over millions of years.<\/p>\n<p>Earth, however, isn\u2019t the only body in the Solar System with canyons and gorges. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/moon\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">The Moon<\/a> has structures comparable to Earth\u2019s Grand Canyon; although, in the absence of liquid water, their formation mechanism has been difficult to determine.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists believe that they have figured it out. Two huge canyons scored into the surface of the Moon were created in the wake of a giant impact \u2013 and, in stark and jaw-dropping contrast to the Grand Canyon, their creation could have taken less than 10 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona\u2019s magnificent Grand Canyon is painstaking result of the Colorado River\u2019s current wearing away the planet\u2019s surface over millions of years. Earth, however, isn\u2019t the only body in the Solar System with canyons and gorges. The Moon has structures comparable to Earth\u2019s Grand Canyon; although, in the absence of liquid water, their formation mechanism has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}