All of those satellites could be remnants of one giant collision early in solar system history. (scientificamerican.com)
«The best place to answer those questions is on the moon,» he explains, given that its airless surface contains the scarcely altered imprints of 4.5 billion years of solar system history. (scientificamerican.com)
Their results, published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, imply that events from Solar System history that are recorded on much of the visible face of the Moon can one day be dated directly by instruments aboard a lunar lander. (sciencedaily.com)