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Shocking New Report Finds That Moon is Shaking and Shrinking
The newly reported evidence has scientists clamoring to get back on our rocky satellite for further investigation.
When it comes to the mysteries of the universe, one thing is certain: We don’t know the half of it.
Sure, humans have done a fairly decent job at getting to the bottom of some of our more terrestrial mysteries, but outer space is still very much at the limit of our fundamental understanding of existence.
Heck, we’ve been to the moon and we’re still getting surprised by our orbital pal.
This week’s latest moon news is certainly shocking, as scientists believe that our rocky satellite is both shaking and shrinking.
The interior of the moon has been cooling and as a result, has gotten about 150 feet “skinnier ” over the past several hundred million years — leading to a phenomenon known as “moonquakes,” NASA data suggests.
Similar to a grape’s skin when it shrinks into a raisin, the moon wrinkles as it gets smaller. And as it gets “skinner,” the moon actively generates moonquakes along the faults. When the moon’s fragile crust breaks, it creates visible stair-step-like cliffs as parts of the crusts are pushed up and over one another. These faults, which are “high and extending for a few miles” on the surface, remain active and moving in response to the gradual reduction in size that the moon is undergoing.
The quakes themselves are nothing to scoff at either, with estimates of the jolts registering somewhere around on a five on our terrestrial Richter Scale.
Interestingly, the more powerful quakes that have been detected on the moon’s surface by Apollo mission instruments have all occurred while the moon was furthest from the earth, likely due to the strain of the gravitational pull.
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