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How a Frozen Earth Gave the Moon Its Shape

It might look like a perfect circle, but the Moon is actually wider than it is tall. Now, new calculations indicate that the Moon’s shape is a remnant of a time when Earth might’ve been covered in a single, global ice sheet.

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Sources:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL076278/full
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/02/06/fossilized-feature-records-moons-slow-retreat-earth
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https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19990114316
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/earth/earth_timeline/snowball_earth
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Images:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon#/media/File:LRO_WAC_Nearside_Mosaic.jpg
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