Close-up of the 'super deep hole' moon

NASA satellites have captured close-up images of a giant wormhole on the moon.

In November 2011, NASA's LRO spacecraft flew through the Aristarchus wormhole of the moon. The photographs showed the diameter of the pit up to 40km and its depth of more than 3.5km.

Huge basalt walls surrounding the deep hole

With this unprecedented size, plus the high light reflection, Aristarchus deep hole can be easily seen with the naked eye. However, due to the LRO's extremely low trajectory, the new series has allowed people to have an unprecedented detailed view of this wormhole.

'The ship only flies about 26km from the moon's surface, which is two times lower than the normal trajectory,' NASA said. 'To make it easier to imagine, that altitude is just a little more than the distance from the ground to civilian aircraft'.

The scene in which the pictures are drawn is described as 'too wonderful and scientifically interesting'.

The Aristarchus shelf is one of the most geologically diverse areas on the moon: a flat geological platform emerges mysteriously, a giant 'canal' created by eruptive lava, plains Filled with volcanic ash and all surrounded by basalt, NASA describes.

According to LiveScience , scientists believe that this wormhole has only been relatively recently formed, when a comet or asteroid hits the moon and leaves a deep pit on its surface.