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Those are created by Earth’s tilt, currently 23.4 degrees away from the perpendicular to the orbital plane (according to NASA). It is believed that it’s the devastating collision with Theia ...

A protoplanet, roughly the size of Mars, slammed into the proto-Earth. The impact was so powerful that it vaporized rock and metal, blasting molten debris into orbit.

According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia slammed into the proto-Earth. Artwork of the young Earth-moon system.

Current theories of the Moon’s formation favor both the Earth and Moon forming from the debris created by the collision of a Mars-sized world with the proto-Earth about 4.5 billion years ago.