Especially because there is virtually no evidence left on Earth of when it was initially created. Most evidence, long gone due to the extreme rockiness of the Earth, begins through constant meteor strikes, diverse inhabitants of life, etc. The fact that the Moon is essentially a fingerprint of the Earth holds many answers to the mystery and allows science to delve even deeper into what things were like for planet Earth billions of years ago. It was found that the creation of the moon itself was caused by a strong impact on the planet, it was also established that the moon is moving further and further away from the Earth, slowing down the Earth's rotation, and finally that because of the moon the Earth has seasons stable ones that prevent the planet from being a large burning wreck habitable to humanity, or a giant ball of ice also habitable to humanity. All in all, as discovered in the film “Origins, fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution: the Earth was born”, the Moon is a necessary part of our planet and one of the many keys to unlock its multiple