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Lunar Orbiter Reveals The Moon Is Shrinking 2014 (Video)

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:07
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(N.Morgan) The lunar surface of the moon is shrinking, according to NASA. LRO Spacecraft discovered the lunar crust indicate the moon shrank globally in the recent past and may still be and still may be shrinking today. 

  A team analyzing new images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO spacecraft. The results provide important clues to the moon’s recent geologic and tectonic evolution. NASA’s LRO Reveals Incredible Shrinking Moon 08.19.2010 Newly discovered cliffs in the lunar crust indicate the moon shrank globally in the geologically recent past and might still be shrinking today, according to a team analyzing new images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO spacecraft. The results provide important clues to the moon’s recent geologic and tectonic evolution.

The moon formed in a chaotic environment of intense bombardment by asteroids and meteors. These collisions, along with the decay of radioactive elements, made the moon hot. The moon cooled off as it aged, and scientists have long thought the moon shrank over time as it cooled, especially in its early history. The new research reveals relatively recent tectonic activity connected to the long-lived cooling and associated contraction of the lunar interior.’We estimate these cliffs, called lobate scarps, formed less than a billion years ago, and they could be as young as a hundred million years,’ said Dr. Thomas Watters of the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. While ancient in human terms, it is less than 25 percent of the moon’s current age of more than four billion years.

 

 

 

 

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