This spinning moon shows where debris from giant impacts fell
Most of the light-colored plains on the lunar surface point back to two huge impact basins
![moon map](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/032218_lg_lunar_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
LUNAR LOOK A new moon map, compiled using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, is the most detailed global look yet at the moon’s light-colored plains (shaded green).
H. Meyer, L. Davis and N. Estes/LROC SOC-ASU