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.
1 He was one of the first major artists to use art as social commentary. 2  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot-A French landscape painter who moved from Romanticism to Realism. 3  Honore Daumier-A French painter who was more famous for his caricatures of famous people while alive. 4  His art became famous after he died.