How the Moon Was Formed: A Science Cosmic Mystery
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In this Nature Mysteries Minisode, Katy Reiss and Laura Fawks Lapole tackle one of the biggest unanswered questions in planetary science: how was the Moon formed?
We look at what we do know—like why lunar rocks look almost identical to Earth’s, why one side of the Moon is thicker than the other, and why it’s slowly drifting away at 1.5 inches per year. Then we dig into the wild theories scientists are still testing:
🌑 The Giant Impact Hypothesis (a Mars-sized planet colliding with Earth)
🌋 Evidence…
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