Shrinking Moon generating Moonquakes

SHRINKING MOON GENERATING MOONQUAKES   For: Preliminary & Mains Topic covers: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)/ Camera (LROC), Findings of study, Objectives & importance   News Flash The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools — getting over 50 metres skinnier through the last several hundred million years — and causing quakes on the lunar surface, according to an analysis of imagery captured by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.   How study carried out? The researchers/ scientists…

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