Science
Moon’s origins may hold clues to a critical moment in Earth’s history – Inverse
A new study reconstructed Earth’s early history, revealing how the planet may have lost a portion of its atmosphere from the impact that formed the Moon.
Around 4.5 billion years ago
, the Solar System formed in the midst of the chaos of an early universe. As objects flung through the eddies of space, our own planet survived several massive impacts.
One such collision may have birthed the Moon, but not without a cost to Earth. In a recent study recreating the Earth’s early history and the Moon’s birth, scientists reveal that the collision may have also caused Earth to lose somewhere between 10 to 60 percent of its atmosphere.
The study was pub…
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