SPACE.com -- Top 10 Apollo Era Moon Discoveries


	Top 10 Apollo Era Moon Discoveries posted: 30 June 2005 07:46 am

The Moon and Earth are genetically related.

The two objects formed from different proportions of a common reservoir of materials.

The distinctively similar oxygen isotopic compositions of Moon rocks and Earth rocks clearly show common ancestry. Relative to Earth, however, the Moon was highly depleted in iron and in volatile elements that are needed to form atmospheric gases and water.

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