The scientists need lunar samples from future Artemis missions to confirm their hypothesis.
The moon could have formed immediately after a cataclysmic impact that tore off a chunk of Earth and hurled it into space, a new study has suggested.
Scientists got their first clues about the moon's creation after the return of the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969, when NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin brought 47.6 pounds of lunar rock and dust back to Earth. The samples dated to around 4.5 billion years ago, placing the moon's creation in the turbulent period roughly 150 million years after the formation of the solar system.
Yet some parts of the picture remain elusive.
"With a higher resolution we can study more detail — much like how a larger telescope lets you take higher resolution images of distant planets or galaxies to discover new details," Kegerreis said.
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