Volcanic Moon (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

Volcanic Moon

Caption

A few hundred million years after its formation, the Moon was subject to intense volcanic activity. The distance between the Earth and the Moon was much smaller back then than it is today.

Credit

MPS / Alexey Chizhik

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