Planetary Demolition Derby
October 18, 2012
This artist’s conception of a planetary smashup whose debris was spotted by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope three years ago gives an impression of the carnage that would have been wrecked when a similar impact created Earth’s Moon. A team at Washington University in St. Louis has uncovered evidence of this impact that scientists have been trying to find for more than 30 years.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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Technology Internet, Environment, Space technology, Spaceflight, Spacecraft, Space telescopes, Spitzer Space Telescope, Infrared imaging, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
