Thursday 19 August 2010

The Moon is Shrinking?

Hi Welcome to Weirdbeautiful,

Link of the day today is to this bizarre story that the moon may be shrinking (due to internal cooling): the evidence for this comprises images of unusual fault lines on the lunar surface that were captured by a probe. The lines- called "lobate scarps"- have been found in the moon's highlands, as this article explains-

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100819/tsc-moon-may-be-shrinking-say-experts-4b158bc.html

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