Theia: The Mars-Sized Planet That Collided With Earth And Formed The Moon | Giant Impact Hypothesis Documentary - video Dailymotion

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A cinematic visualization of the Giant Impact Hypothesis. About 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized protoplanet named Theia collided with the young, molten Earth. The cataclysmic impact vaporized enormous amounts of rock and blasted debris into orbit. That debris circled Earth, clumped together under gravity, and formed the Moon we see today. Watch Earth cool, its crust harden, and the end of the Hadean eon.

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00:004.5 billion years ago, Earth was born. And it was hell. Not the world you know. No breathable air,

00:10no stable solid surface like today. The young Earth was battered by giant asteroids. Volcanoes raged, the surface melted again

00:19and again, and the sky was choked with toxic gas.

00:23But it wasn't just a ball of lava forever. Ancient crystals tell us liquid water, maybe even oceans, existed far

00:31earlier than we once thought. Then, about 4.5 billion years ago, the unthinkable happened. A planet-sized body, roughly

00:41the size of Mars, which we call Theia, slammed into Earth.

00:45The impact was so powerful, it vaporized enormous amounts of rock and blasted debris into orbit. And from that destruction,

00:54our moon was born. The debris circled Earth, clumped together, and became the moon we see today. Earth cooled, its

01:03crust hardened, and hell finally ended.

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