Space scientist suggests mission to Venus might help explain origin of the Moon

(Phys.org) —Robin Canup, a space scientist with the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado has published a Comment piece in the journal Nature proposing that a mission to Venus be considered to help better understand the development of our moon. She suggests that current theories that describe how the moon came about rely too heavily on Mars data, which could be obscuring the real story. Tim Elliot and Sarah Stewart offer their own opinions on the matter in a companion News & Views piece in the same journal.

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