The moon is still tectonically active and is quaking as it continues to shrink in size - News Summed Up

The moon is still tectonically active and is quaking as it continues to shrink in size


Scroll down for videoThis prominent thrust fault is one of thousands discovered on the moon by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). This is the movement of plates in the lunar crust which create 'thrust faults'. But unlike the flexible skin on a grape the moon's crust is brittle - causing it to break as the interior shrinks. Some of these images show landslides or boulders at the bottom of relatively bright patches on the slopes of fault scarps or nearby terrain. Other LRO fault images show fresh tracks from boulder falls, suggesting that quakes sent these boulders rolling down their cliff slopes.


Source: Daily Mail May 13, 2019 15:03 UTC



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