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New research reveals that the South Pole-Aitken Basin — the Moon's largest and oldest impact crater — was formed by a 260-kilometer-wide asteroid striking from the north, scattering mantle material and radioactive thorium directly into the region where NASA plans to land Artemis astronauts. While the discovery raises the possibility of sampling material excavated from 100 kilometers below the lunar surface, skeptics caution that billions of years of impact gardening may have diluted pristine mantle signatures beyond recovery.