Moon Is Shrinking, Causing Landslides: NASA
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NASA has revealed that the moon has been silently changing, significantly shrinking in size over the past few hundred million years
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The study says that the moon has shrunk more than 150 feet in circumference as its core gradually cooled over the said period
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This will make human exploration difficult, in the same way, it does for those living near fault lines on the Earth
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The study was carried out by scientists from NASA, the Smithsonian, Arizona State University and The University of Maryland
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The researchers used the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera onboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
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The contraction is caused by the cooling of the moon's still-hot interior and tidal forces exerted by Earth, resulting in global shrinking
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The shrinking process is being compared to the wrinkling of a grape when it becomes a raisin
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The shallow moonquakes occur only about 100 or so miles deep into the moon's crust
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NASA carried out the study for its Artemis mission
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