Earth's moon is shrinking and quaking, study says

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The moon is slowly shrinking over time, which is causing wrinkles in its crust and moonquakes, according to photos captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

The moon is slowly shrinking over time, which is causing wrinkles in its crust and moonquakes, according to photos captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Unlike Earth, the moon doesn't have tectonic plates. Instead, as the moon's interior has cooled over the last several hundred million years, it has caused the surface to wrinkle as it shrinks. Unlike the flexible skin of a grape when it shrinks into a raisin, the moon's brittle crust breaks. This creates stair-step cliffs called thrust faults as part of the crust is pushed up and over another close part of the crust.

 

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How will aoc fix this? Moon busting up would be worst then what is going on here!

Probably moon men driving SUV’s. Caused climate change, and the damn thing shrunk.

TheLastPirateLA is gravitational force of Earth becoming stronger?

Just go back there! 🤣🤣🤣

Now the moon isn’t even safe anymore climatechange jk

We need to immediately suspend all manned moon landings until we figure out just what the hell is going on.

Lot of people have got commercial stakes on the moon ,any insurance benefits or reimbursement likely ? Astrologers have turned jittery in predicting future of their clients , chaotic lunar effects, is moon really crumbling ?

Just like one of those Hollywood stars after getting those plastic surgery then.

Your boss is Satan & you still employed by FB while underbosses puked. What its mean? U r not princess but possibility of syphilis or worth from Satan national security. Evil are strait&operate with diseases. Black plaque is favorite. Biden's HIV don't even hear MondayMotivation

Horrendously fake news

Global warming for sure . oh and Russia

Let's politicise 'lunar change' and make a whole bunch of fraudulent money off it - ya know, like a bunch of vile and pathetic left wing activists

It's not shrinking, what an absurd thing to say. For it to be shrinking it would need to lose mass, and it's not losing mass, but gaining it with impacts, which likely contribute to the cracking and quakes.

These ignorant comments have to be Russian trolls sowing discord.

Your boss is

Its humans stepping on it and taking sample of its soil... Stop tempering with nature ,leave the moon alone .. Humans know only how to destroy

Even the 🌚 needs to moisturize, apparently...

My takeaway from this article is that Tom Cruise is tougher than the moon.

Rick and Morty reference

The amount of stupidity in the comments under this tweet is concerning.

Why is it shrinking?

This is UNDOUBTEDLY Trump's fault.

Global warming has spread to the moon, Democrats need more taxes

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