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My hunch would be that these large structures are the remnants of massive impactors from very early in the history of the formation of the earth.
by chasil 5y ago
My hunch would be that these large structures are the remnants of massive impactors from very early in the history of the formation of the earth.
- lovecg 5y agoFrom the comments on the article, more recent research suggests these are remnants of the giant collision that created the moon: https://youtu.be/X-EZjEJc8Bo https://youtu.be/X-EZjEJc8Bo https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1980.pdf https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1980.pdf
- lovemenot 5y agoI didn't have such a hunch, though yours is interesting. I assumed these were not so much persistent structures as waves whose current state is more-or-less arbitrarily determined by previous state and some effectively random physical inputs.