Volcanic activity on the Moon? (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Volcanic activity on the Moon?

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Artist's impression of what the Moon looked like during the tidal-heating event. There would have been intense volcanic activity everywhere. The early Earth would have loomed much larger in the sky because it was closer.

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Credit: Alexey Chizhik/Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

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