What is the largest maria on the moon's surface?

Answer 1

Although there have been many hypotheses proposed in the past concerning the origin of our Moon, the most likely one, which is supported by the most evidence, is the Giant Impact model. It states that the moon formed shortly after Earth did, around 4.4 billion years ago from a massive collision. A proto-planet about the size of Mars, named Theia, smashed into Earth, causing large amounts of debris to be thrown into space. This debris began orbiting the Earth, and through the force of gravity, coalesced into a ball that would become our moon. Not only did the collision form the moon, but it tilted the Earth at an angle, which allows seasons to occur.
It is believed that the moon formed only a few hundred million years after the earth did and was the result of a huge collision. The early Earth was smaller than it is now and didn't have a moon. Then a proto-planet about the size of Mars smashed into it. This caused large amount of the earth's upper crust to be blown into space and also caused the earth to be tilted at 23 1/2 degrees. The debri that was circling the Earth after this collision gathered together and formed a ball, this was the early moon. It started out closer to the earth than it is now and used to cause the Earth's crust to experience tides even bigger than the oceans do today. Each year it moved further and further from the Earth until it got to the familiar place it is now. Even today, it keeps moving further from earth by an inch and a half every year. At some point in the future, the Earth's gravity will no longer be able to hold the moon in its orbit and it will fly off into space away from the Earth forever. that is if the sun holds out that long.

Despite some claims as the prototype of the word our moon (Luna) is a moon. Further all moons are satellites.

Answer 2

The Lunar Maria formed from the volcanic activity the moon had. Lava flowed from the moons core and filled in the massive holes that was created from meteorites striking the surface of earth over the existence of the universe.

Answer 3

The most widely accepted theory is that a large planetoid the size of mars collided with the earth a long time ago, when the solar system was very young. Some of this stayed with the earth, but some bounced off and went into orbit around the earth to form the moon.

Back then (a few billion years ago) there were a lot more pieces orbiting the sun, and so a lot more collisions.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The maria - Latin for seas - where once thought to be the flood plains of large seas.

They are now known to be ancient lava basins caused by the impact of asteroids and comets in the early solar system

Answer 6

There are many theories of how moons(in other word, natural satellites) were formed. One of these is our moon itself. These are some of the following:

; a) Fission hypothesis :

: Which states that the Moon broke off from the Earth's crust because of centrifugal forces. ; b) Capture hypothesis :

: This states that the Moon was formed elsewhere and successively being captured by gravity of the Earth.

; c) Co-formation hypothesis :

: This proposes that the Earth and the Moon formed together at the same time and place from the primordial accretion disk.

; d) Giant Impact hypothesis : The most accepted hypothesis today is that the Earth-Moon system formed as a result of a huge impact. An object which is a third of the earth(also called as "Theia") is believed to have hit the Earth, discharging abundant materials into the orbit around the the planet to form the Moon through accretion. As accretion is the process by which all planetary bodies are believed to have formed, huge impacts are believed to have affected most of the planets if not all

Answer 7

A common theory is that as the Earth was cooling and still molten, a large enough asteroid hit the earth. Similar to how a drop of rain hitting a puddle creates a tiny droplet, smaller than the rain drop forms after the "collision" travels back upwards for a split second before falling back down, it is believed the moon formed from the same phenomenon. When the large foreign object hit the molten earth, a large droplet of molten earth flew high enough to develop a stable orbit, and not fall back into earth. This is supported by evidence that the moon has the same base elements in the same proportion as earth, and that the impact craters we see on the moon also occured on earth but where eroded away, where the is no substantial atmosphere or weather to erode the scars of time.

Answer 8

Apparent from a crash, of an object the size of a small planet, with Earth - early in Earth's history. For more information, check the Wikipedia article about the Moon; or more specifically, the article "Giant impact hypothesis".

Answer 9

Popular theory suggests the moon was caused by a giant asteroid or comet colliding with the earth while it was still being formed - throwing thousands of chunks of molten earth into space. The Earth's gravity 'caprured' those chunks which congealed into a solid mass.

Answer 10

the word "maria" means seas. if you look at the moon, you can see those dark spots on it, kind of like craters. as we all know, those are actually not seas, but i guess someone thought they were!