https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/the-moons-origin-story-a-tale-of-collision-and-reconstruction Safeguarding Humanity Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/the-moons-origin-story-a-tale-of-collision-and-reconstruction#comment-503494 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:00:59 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/the-moons-origin-story-a-tale-of-collision-and-reconstruction#comment-503494 If you were around and looked up at the Moon 2 billion years ago or so, you would have seen a completely different satellite from the one that orbits Earth now. For starters, the Moon was far closer to the planet than it is nowadays. Around 2 billion years ago, the Moon was about 60,000 kilometers\40,000 miles away from the Earth,which is less than twice as high as geostationary orbit (which is around 35,785 km\22,230 mi up). Secondly, the Moon was geologically active at the time, so you probably would’ve seen a few volcanic eruptions on the Moon. A lunar atmosphere would have also likely been visible (yes, evidence suggests Luna had a somewhat thick atmosphere 2 billion years ago), which means clouds could have been visible around the Moon!

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