Birth Of The Moon
by Gwen Shockey
Title
Birth Of The Moon
Artist
Gwen Shockey
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Illustration depicting the birth of the moon. A mars-sized object impacted the earth approximately 4.5 million years ago (top row, at left). The impact propelled a shower of debris into space from the object and Earth (top row at right). The Earth's rotation sped up from the impact and tilted the Earths orbital plane (middle row). Earth re-formed as a molten body, and the Moon aggregated from the debris (bottom row).
Uploaded
August 5th, 2015
Embed
Share
Comments
There are no comments for Birth Of The Moon. Click here to post the first comment.