The Story of Earth's Formation
Before oceans shimmeredand before the sky had air to breathe
Earth was only a beginning.
It formed from dust and rock circling a young Sun.
Tiny pieces collided and stuck, again and again,
growing larger with every meeting
Until it was not just a rock,
But Earth
Earth grew hot.
So hot that rock melted.
The surface glowed.
The inside churned and flowed.
And then—something enormous happened.
A young Earth was struck by a wandering, mars-sized world.
The impact was powerful, shaking Earth to its core.
Rock and metal blasted into space,
forming a glowing ring of debris around the planet.
Over time, that debris came together.
Piece by piece. Pull by pull.
The Moon was born.
While the Moon gathered above, Earth continued to change below.
The heaviest materials like iron and nickel sank deep down
Pulled by gravity to the center.
Lighter materials rose upward.
Slowly, Earth sorted itself, layer by layer, like a planet learning who it was.
At the very center, a solid inner core formed
a dense ball of iron, hotter than the surface of the Sun.
Around it flowed the outer core, liquid metal swirling and moving.
Above the core stretched the mantle, thick and heavy,
made of hot, slowly moving rock—always shifting, always restless.
And on the outside, thin and fragile, the crust formed.
Earth’s skin.
The place where continents would one day rest and mountains would someday rise.
Above it all, the Moon circled its newborn planet—a silent companion,
shaped from Earth’s own beginnings.
Earth slowly cooled.Its layers settled into place.
A core to hold it together.
A mantle to shape its surface.
A crust to become home.
And a Moon, keeping watch from the sky.
Deep beneath your feet and far above your head, the marks of Earth’s formation are still with us.