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Earth and Moon Once Shared a Magnetic Shield 1327, Protecting Their Atmospheres – Pattaya Mail

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Earth’s surface was a menacing, hot mess. Long before the emergence of life, temperatures were scorching, and the air was toxic….

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The Earth and Moon, shown here in a composite of two images from the Galileo mission of the 1990s, have a long shared history. Billions of years ago, they had connected magnetic fields. (Credits: NASA/JPL/USGS)
Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Earths surface was a menacing, hot mess. Long before the emergence of life, temperatures were scorching, and the air was toxic. Plus, as a mere toddler, the Sun bombarded our planet with violent outbursts of radiation called flares and coronal mass ejections….

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