A crucial difference in the ‘fingerprints’ of Earth and the moon confirms an explosive, interconnected past. Within the first 150 million years after our solar system formed, a giant body roughly the size of Mars struck and merged with Earth, blasting a huge cloud of rock and debris into space. This cloud would eventually coalesce and form the moon.
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