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Two Grand Canyon-size valleys on the far side of the moon formed within 10 minutes, scientists say | CNN

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Two massive canyons likely formed 3.8 billion years ago on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes , study says.

The energy unleashed that created the canyon was 1,200 to 2,200 times more powerful than the nuclear explosion energy once planned to excavate a second Panama Canal .

Future missions could visit the Schrödinger impact basin and take rock samples to help scientists better understand the origins and history of the moon.

The energy of the blasts was about 130 times more destructive than the energy in the worldwide stockpile of nuclear weapons.

The Schrödinger crater is similar in many regards to the dino-killing Chicxulub crater on Earth .

The crater is within a few hundred kilometers of the moon’s oldest and largest impact basin.

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