LRO Discovers Evidence Of Lunar Shrinking

New images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show geologically young cliffs on the Moon, indicating that it has shrunk due to cooling in the relatively recent past and may still be tectonically active today. LRO, which has been orbiting the Moon since June 2009, has discovered the first...

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