The Moon formed from fragments of Earth's In common belief, the Moon formed from fragments of Earth's early atmosphere that were hurled into space by a massive collision. To this day, scientists are still baffled as to the precise mechanisms that led to that development. "This offers up a whole new variety of possible beginning sites for the Moon's evolution," postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, Jacob Kegerreis, stated. We didn't know going in what to expect from these high-resolution models. That conventional resolutions can provide inaccurate results was shocking enough, but the possibility of a fascinating Moon-like satellite in orbit just made the latest findings that much more intriguing. This study uses models with the highest resolution ever achieved in studying the Moon's formation or other massive impacts, making them among the most detailed simulations of their kind. Researchers were ab...