The moon is constantly being bombarded by asteroids, but the cosmic events are rarely seen by us on Earth – until now.
A video shared by Hazegrayart, a YouTube channel, shows an animation of what the lunar surface looks like as it is battered by space rocks.
Small lights twinkle on the surface of the moon in the three-minute animation, representing asteroids crashing into its surface, and a closer look shows a stunning display of lights shooting out like fireworks from the newly made craters.
More than 6,100 pounds of meteor material hit the moon per day, which is about 100,000 individual rocks, but most of objects are the size of a speck of dust.
However, if it were not for the moon taking the brunt of the collisions, Earth would instead be hit – and life has we known it might not have existed.
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The moon is constantly being bombarded by asteroids, but the cosmic events are rarely seen by us on Earth – until now. A video shared by Hazegrayart , a YouTube channel, shows the lunar surface being battered with several space rocks, which explode like fireworks upon impact
The moon sits about 240,000 miles from Earth, where it shines light on us at night, creates high and low tides and provides animals with a natural migration and navigational tool.
And it is about 4.53 billion years old, whereas Earth is around 4.54 billion years old.
Although scientists are not completely sure how the moon was formed, the running theory suggests it was created during a collision between the Earth and a smaller planet, about the size of Mars.
But it acts as a natural barrier for us against space rocks.
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Small lights twinkle on the surface of the moon in the three-minute clip, representing asteroids crashing into its surface, and a closer look shows a stunning display of lights shooting out from the newly made crater
More than 6,100 pounds of meteor material hit the moon per day, which is about 100,000 each day, but most of them are the size of a speck of dust. However, if it were not for the moon taking the brunt of the collisions, Earth would instead be hit – and life has we known it might not have existed
The International Astronomical Union currently recognizes 9,137 craters on the moon's surface, of which 1,675 have been dated.
The slowest asteroids travel 45,000 miles per hour, while the fastest is more than 160,000 mph.
At such speeds even a small ones have incredible energy -- one with a mass of
