How were the Moon's Craters & Maria Formed?

How were the Moon's craters and maria formed? Here is a look at the violent, battered past of the Moon that created its craters and maria.

Video-credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

[ProximaCentauri]

Lets take a moment to appreciate how unique and beautiful our moon is

[boyscout]

Wow this video from 4.5 billion years ago is so amazing! Wish we have the same technology now.

[pigknickers]

The dark patches on the moon and Mars look like major warfare to me.

[tariqaabdallat]

Wow I learned it from my lesson 🎁🎁amazing 🌺🌺

[sauliusbielskus]

Tris side of moon has so great magnet propertys

[GrimKayne]

Lots of questions. Ready? First and most important is how do meteors fly passed earth's gravitational orbit and then redirect themselves to hit the moon at a 90 degree angle, which NASA says is how the impact craters were formed? Secondly, how did the moon cool? After being in magma state. How long did it take to harden? And why doesnt our sun cool being in a majority of cold space and being so far away? Our sun isnt even as hot as the stars we see at night. Thirdly. No meteor or asteroid has ever hit the moon hard enough to peel the layers of moon to see only magma still underneath? Or are you saying it cooled entirely to its core? Fourthly. How come the moon doesnt have gravity when it should being made of metals it should have some kind of electromagnetism behind it. Fifthly. Why is the moon so bright when we see it from here but in any moon mission from nasa or anyone, their is no massively bright light emanating from the ground. If it lights up half of Earth from reflecting the sun's light, why isnt it? If you say it's night time it would be pitch black. It would be utterly blinding on the moon. Sixly. Did meteors rain on earth after the south pole aikens basen since the gravitational force would pull meteors towards earth from space.

[Cryolyptic]

The moon has a synchronous rotation, the side we see from earth is always facing the earth, no other astronomical body does that
When did it's rotation change for it to have craters on the side we see, yet no longer rotate to produce more craters?

[mazdaspeedmxlbs]

This video is incorrect. The craters on the moon did not form because of random meteor impacts. That's illogical. Take note that all of the craters on the moon are perfectly round. This would mean they would have all had to hit the moon dead center bulls eye 90 degrees straight on with the center. What is the odds of that? If any hit north, south, east, west, or near the edges they would be oval, elongated, or odd shaped. Note there are no large craters that overlap smaller craters just smaller craters overlapping the larger craters. the craters on the moon were caused by electric discharges that happened a 90 degree angles to the moon causing the circular shapes.

[steveability]

The whole of the moon looks as if it has been carpet bombed from 35, 000ft. I see no glancing blows anywhere!

[BobBob-hngv]

PEOPLE WHO ADVOCATE THIS THEORY FORGET TO FILL IN THE DETAILS AND TO MENTION THAT, REALLY THEY ARE MAKING A GUESS AND NOBODY KNOWS HOW THE MOON CAME TO BE

[MagnanimousMichael]

The Moon's craters were actually formed by electrical discharge.

[terrysarjoo]

Showdown with the alien gods flexing their intimidation and power.

[Revolutioninja.]

If the moon craters that we've been shown and can see are all perfect circles, and when if in nature most all comets come from all different angles leaving ovals; wouldn't logical thinking make this a mystery?

[armor]

Or there was a big war between the moon people and humans and they got just fkin destroyed by rockets

[UNOwen]

+Mad Scientist; Ah, thank YOU!

I guess I was being a bit 'masochistic', 2day, as I watched one-after-another 'conspiracy' (i.e., LUNATIC) videos, and I began to feel, not just sad, but, ill.

I just watched this - and, it's like I've come back to the world of knowledge, reason…SCIENCE, and I LOVE that.

You're video is a clear, concise explanation - through the words, and images - of what made the moon, the 'moon' (though I know in the 'conspiracist's mind, it's really a big 'plot' by the 'illuminati, satanists, FEMA, McDonalds 😉, and is REALLY made of…cheese.

[Widdekuu]

Listen, I'll be honest, I watched to about 1:28, but I'm Dutch and tired (It's half past 2 in the morning) and I already had a question, so I'm going to be lazy and ask it this way;
Is there a chance that the moon, in the beginning of when there were humans, looked véry different from now?

Apart from some of the spots, did the medieval people (or Neanderthals) have a different moon? Was there perhaps still a vulcano on it, that errupted, or is there any chance there were other spots that have vanished? Was the moon smoother, was it bigger/smaller, how did they see the moon?
Or is that difference negligible?

Edit: Nevermind, I forced myself to watch the rest. I still wonder though, if there was a way that their moon was different. Perhaps without all the artificial lights it was different or appeared bigger?

[carlosaguirre]

This is what happened the moon was like the sun it died down got cooler those are big liquid bubbles that all popped on the surface of the moon as it cooled they just happened to stay like craters because it was a thicker liquid nothing hit that moon

[guygamingman]

Is nobody talking about the dark spots look like a face

[shakeelshamsi]

Aslamo Alikum, peace and blessings of God be upon all of you. We are all brothers and sisters and children of one man Adam and one woman Eve. The beautiful girls and guys in videos are nothing but our beloved sisters and brothers. May God forgive them and all our brothers and sisters around the world. May God unite all of us in His love and mercy and in His obedience. If we will be thankful to God and obey Him, this world will become a paradise. And on Day of Judgment, God will give us even a bigger paradise so beautiful and lovely that we cannot imagine where all of us will live in joy and pleasure forever. Please never forget to say many thanks to God and praise Him all your days and nights and ask for His forgiveness all the time. Ameen. Jazak Allah. :)

[noneofurbusiness]

I always liked to think it was from a Alien war