Evolution of the Moon

[gareb]

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from NASA's youtube.

big thanks to diem



Explanation: What is the history of the Moon? The Moon was likely created from debris expelled when a Mars-sized object violently impacted the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. Just after gravitationally condensing, as imagined above, the glowing-hot surface of the Moon cooled and cracked. Rocks large and small continued to impact the surface, including a particularly large impact that created Aitken Basinabout 4.3 billion years ago. A Heavy Bombardment period then continued for hundreds of millions of years, creating large basins all over the lunar surface. Over the next few billion years lava flowed intoEarth-side basins, eventually cooling into the dark maria we see today. As always, relentless impacts continued, forming the craters we see today, slowly diminishing over the past billion years. Today the cooled Moon we know and love is as dark as coal and always keeps the same face toward Earth. Exactly how the Moon formed initially, and why lunar maria are only on the Earth side, remain active topics of research.

source: APOD: 2012 March 20 - Evolution of the Moon

[deks]

Thanks For Sharing Boss Gareb

[st.anger]

fayter..! Thanks

[KizoneC]

nice find ....bossing

[blu bizcuitz]

wow...looks awesome on HD!

[eongab]

nice share gareb.

[angel_pyroRAPTOR]

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[gareb]

updated with description/synopsis.

[MichaelNikki2]

from NASA's youtube.

big thanks to diem



Explanation: What is the history of the Moon? The Moon was likely created from debris expelled when a Mars-sized object violently impacted the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. Just after gravitationally condensing, as imagined above, the glowing-hot surface of the Moon cooled and cracked. Rocks large and small continued to impact the surface, including a particularly large impact that created Aitken Basinabout 4.3 billion years ago. A Heavy Bombardment period then continued for hundreds of millions of years, creating large basins all over the lunar surface. Over the next few billion years lava flowed intoEarth-side basins, eventually cooling into the dark maria we see today. As always, relentless impacts continued, forming the craters we see today, slowly diminishing over the past billion years. Today the cooled Moon we know and love is as dark as coal and always keeps the same face toward Earth. Exactly how the Moon formed initially, and why lunar maria are only on the Earth side, remain active topics of research.

source: APOD: 2012 March 20 - Evolution of the Moon

unknown to many earth has 2 moons millions of years ago.

[sammedriano]

Really? Cool information