The South Pole–Aitken basin (SPA Basin, /ˈeɪtkɪn/) is an immense impact crater on the far side of the Moon. At roughly 2,500 km (1,600 mi) in diameter...

the immense South Pole-Aitken Basin, which was named after this crater, and the southern lunar pole, two extreme points of the Basin. Aitken was a target...

permanent exposure to sunlight. The south pole region features many craters and basins such as the South Pole–Aitken basin, which appears to be one of the most...

Callisto. It has one of the largest craters in the Solar System, the South Pole–Aitken basin. The hemisphere has sometimes been called the "Dark side of the...

Solar System. The basin floor is about 7,152 m (23,465 ft) deep, 3,000 m (9,800 ft) deeper than the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin, and extends about...

the South Pole–Aitken basin. According to a 2012 study, Planck formed roughly 4.09 Ga (billion years) ago, partially resurfacing the area of the South Pole-Aitken...

Aitken may refer to: Aitken (crater), crater on the Moon South Pole–Aitken basin, impact crater on the far side of the Moon Aitken's delta-squared process...

located in the South Pole-Aitken basin, and lies to the southeast of the crater Von Kármán. Southeast of Alder is Bose, and to the south-southwest lies...

on the giant South Pole–Aitken basin (SPA basin) on the far side of the Moon between the Moon's South Pole and Aitken Crater, 16° south of the Moon's...

Sun in six minutes. For comparison, the impact that created the South Pole-Aitken basin, the largest lunar impact structure, had an energy of roughly 4...

Named after him Minor planet 3070 Aitken Lunar crater Aitken, part of the very large South Pole-Aitken basin Aitken supercomputer at NASA Ames Research...

diameter and lies within an immense impact crater known as the South Pole–Aitken basin of roughly 2,500 km (1,600 mi) in diameter and 13 km (8.1 mi) deep...

Procellarum KREEP Terrane, the Feldspathic Highlands Terrane, and the South Pole–Aitken Terrane. Each terrane has a unique origin, composition, and thermal...

Ingenuity or Cleverness), and other dark craters overlapping with the South Pole-Aitken Basin. The naming of this and other features by the Soviet Union was...

thickened by the oblique formation impact of the South Pole–Aitken basin. Other large impact basins such as Imbrium, Serenitatis, Crisium, Smythii, and...

structure, and the lowest elevations of the Moon within the farside South Pole-Aitken basin are only modestly covered by mare (see lunar mare for a more detailed...

Ingenii basin, which is of the Pre-Nectarian epoch, which lies in turn in the outer part of the older and much larger South Pole–Aitken basin. The mare...

on the near side. The crater is located in the outer rim of the South Pole-Aitken basin. The outer rim of Jules Verne is worn and eroded, with several...

cancelling. Mons Mouton is possibly a remnant of the rim of the South Pole–Aitken basin - one of the oldest, largest and deepest impact craters in the...

Moon's South Pole–Aitken basin, which would be the largest impact basin yet discovered if confirmed. It has been hypothesized that the basin was formed...

of low elevation where the crust is thin. However, the far side South Pole–Aitken basin contains the lowest elevations of the Moon and yet is only sparingly...

a region of rough, cratered terrain. It is located within the South Pole–Aitken basin on a massif. The rim is slightly raised about the surrounding surface...

only gather about 500 g (18 oz) of soil, and a recently proposed South Pole-Aitken basin robot mission would only gather about 1 kg (2.2 lb) of Moon rock...

North Polar Basin/Borealis Basin (disputed) – Mars – Diameter: 10,600 km South Pole-Aitken basin – Moon – Diameter: 2,500 km Hellas Basin – Mars – Diameter:...

observed less frequently—and eventually not at all—as one moves toward the South Pole. Conventionalized illustrations of the Man in the Moon seen in Western...

crater in the large South Pole-Aitken basin. An ancient collision event on the Moon left behind a very large crater, called the Aitken Basin, that is now about...

subsurface structure of the South Pole–Aitken basin on the far side of the Moon. The mission returned samples to Earth from Apollo Basin on the far side of the...

Spa-Francorchamps, or Spa, a motor-racing circuit in Francorchamps, Belgium South Pole–Aitken basin, an impact crater on the far side of the Moon SPA, code for Spain...

mare basalts. The lunar mantle might be exposed in the South Pole-Aitken basin or the Crisium basin. The lunar mantle contains a seismic discontinuity at...

Zuber, M. T.; Solomon, S. C. (2010). "The morphology of Mercury's Caloris basin as seen in MESSENGER stereo topographic models". Icarus. 209 (1): 230–238...