The Moon is thought to have formed when an object roughly the size of Mars hit the Earth. The impact was so violent that it threw large amounts of the Earth's mantle into orbit. This material evenually coalesced and formed the Moon.
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books.
The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs. Adams primarily used large-format cameras because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images. Ansel Easton Adams, a photographer and an environmentalist, famously known for the landscape photography, came to the world in February 20, 1902, in San Francisco, California. He gained fame in this field as a photographer of the American West, and for his black and white photo of a landscape, markedly for the Yosemite National Park.