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Looking ahead: Ongoing simulations aim to reconstruct the full formation history of Saturn's inner moons, while NASA's Dragonfly mission may eventually provide surface and interior data that tests the merger hypothesis directly.
The Earth and the Moon may look very different today, but they formed under similar conditions in space. In fact, a dominant hypothesis says that the early Earth was hit by a Mars-sized object, and it was this giant impact that spun off material to form the Moon.
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The next-generation spacesuit for NASA's Artemis III mission continues to advance by passing a contractor-led technical review, as the agency prepares to send humans to the moon's South Pole for the first time. Testing is also underway for the new suits ...