A satellite image shows the moon in 1999. The Man in the Moon has become the latest victim of contraction in the housing market. (AFP/SPACEIMAGING.COM/File/Spaceimaging.Com)
Posted on 08/19/2010 3:20:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Man in the Moon has become the latest victim of contraction in the housing market.
Astronomers reporting on Thursday in the US journal Science said they had found previous undetected landforms which indicate that Earth's satellite has been shrinking... albeit by only a tiny amount.
The intriguing features, called lobate scarps, are faults created when the Moon's once-molten interior began to cool, causing the lunar surface to contract and then crinkle, they said.
Relative to the Moon's age, estimated at around 4.5 billion years, the contraction is recent, occurring less than a billion years ago, and is measured at about 100 metees (325 feet).
Lobate scarps were first spotted near the lunar equator in the 1970s by panoramic cameras aboard the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions.
Fourteen new faults have been been spotted in high-resolution images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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A satellite image shows the moon in 1999. The Man in the Moon has become the latest victim of contraction in the housing market. (AFP/SPACEIMAGING.COM/File/Spaceimaging.Com)
somebody better ping al gore.
It’s not easy bein’ cheesy. it shrinks as it dries out.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Ten Cool Things Seen in the First Year of LRO
See ya!
The moon isn’t shrinking. Our telescopes just got bigger.
Bush’s fault.
Moon Change is due to human activities and space exploration. Gore should tax satellites.
Seriously though, I think Congress should appropriate $1 trillion to re-expand the moon. A smaller moon, you see ... wait for it ...
It figures such a stupid article would be the work of the idiots at AFP/Yahoo that know absolutely nothing about reality or science. They dumb down everything to the lowest Obama-supporting fool’s denominator.
“Bush’s fault.”
My first thought, too.
But this is just SOOOO evil that it has to be a Rove plot.
Lobate scarps were first spotted near the lunar equator in the 1970s by panoramic cameras aboard the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions.
We must abort export to the Man in the Moon. Bring back
The Moon is also moving two inches further away from the Earth each year.
More pics here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/shrinking-moon.html
I didn’t know Rosie O’Dumbbell was on a diet.
I’ve noticed that shrinking of the moon. If this keeps up soon it will disappear altogether.
...previous undetected landforms... called lobate scarps, are faults created when the Moon's once-molten interior began to cool, causing the lunar surface to contract and then crinkle... the contraction is recent, occurring less than a billion years ago, and is measured at about 100 metees (325 feet). Lobate scarps were first spotted near the lunar equator in the 1970s by panoramic cameras aboard the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions. Fourteen new faults have been been spotted in high-resolution images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter."Steep thermal gradient" ping.
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