Our moon is huge compared to the size of the Earth, like almost a quarter of the size of our planet. And our giant weird moon is one of the biggest mysteries in planetary science. The mystery of how we got our moon unfolds into an epic tale,. A strange world-bending apocalypse of mythic proportions.
In all our searching of the universe, we’ve never seen another moon like ours. It's big, it's weird, and it has played a huge role in shaping our planet. But how did we get it? Every possible story points to cataclysm.
This episode originally ran on June 15, 2022. It is part of our Lost Worlds series exploring scientific mysteries buried in the deep past.
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