New Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin

New Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin
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What’s always so mind-bending about planet collision simulations like this one is how fluid the impacts are. It’s more like two water droplets splashing together in space than most people would expect.
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New Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin

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2022
A new NASA and Durham University simulation puts forth a different theory of the Moon’s origin – the Moon may have formed in a matter of hours, when material from the Earth and a Mars sized-body were launched directly into orbit after the impact. The simulations used in this research are some of the most detailed of their kind, operating at the highest resolution of any simulation run to study the Moon’s origins or other giant impacts.

Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/lun...

Credit: NASA/Durham University/Jacob Kegerreis

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This video can be downloaded from the NASA Image and Video Library at: https://images.nasa.gov/details-ARC-2...

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