Magma is the key to the moon's makeup

By Yale University

The image is a snapshot of numerical modeling of the moon formation by a giant impact. Proto-Earth is at the center; red points indicate materials from the ocean of magma on a proto-Earth; blue points indicate the impactor materials. Credit: Hosono, Karato, Makino & Saitoh

For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how the Earth's moon formed. But researchers at Yale and in Japan say they may have the answer.

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Opinion:

A big caveat is that we have only sampled the surface of the Moon. Saying the whole thing is made of the same material seems a bit naïve.

Don't stop where the ink does.