NASA confirms the Moon is shrinking

We can see the Moon, although it is actually about 384,400 kilometers away. He has two faces, but he only shows us one. It is believed that its core is made of iron, but this is just a belief because no one has ever reached its heart. The dark side of the Moon is very cold (-153°C), but on the best days the sunny side of the Moon is very warm (134°C). He has numerous scars (craters) that show the mark that history has left on his spirit. He was born after the collision of two bodies. No one knows why, but of all the creatures she could be like, Luna chose to be like humans.

This, of course, entails accepting people’s chiaroscuro. He allowed himself to be trampled by at least a dozen people, and Neil Armstrong, her first love, poked her with a US flag. as if it were a brave bull. Some don’t believe it, and others, as if that weren’t enough, say it looks like cheese with holes in it. Moreover, a few years ago they discovered that the Moon is shrinking over time.

This happens because its core is cooling, causing the surface to crack and the satellite to shrink in size, something of a punchline, according to an analysis of images taken Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) from NASA. In other words, as the Moon’s core cools and contracts, wrinkles form on the lunar surface, causing lunar earthquakes that call into question possible human habitation, especially at the moon’s south pole.

“There is an outer core that is molten and cooling. As the Moon cools, it contracts, its internal volume changes and the cortex must adapt to these changes

; This is a global contraction that is also aided by tidal forces on Earth,” Thomas R. Watters, lead author of the NASA study that confirms the Moon is getting smaller, explains to CNN. Watters also sends a message of planetary calm: “This is not to alarm anyone or discourage exploration of this part of the lunar south pole, but to warn that The moon is not such a harmless place where nothing happens“

“It is believed that the Moon is a geologically dead object on which nothing has happened for billions of years, but this is very far from the truth,” he notes. “These failures are very young and these things happen. “In fact, we detected landslides that occurred while the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was orbiting the Moon.”

This could make it difficult for future humans to walk on the Moon. NASA’s Artemis III mission intends to land somewhere on the moon’s south pole, where it has already discovered at least 13 possible crash sites. Once there, the two astronauts will spend a week exploring the lunar surface.

That is, two new people will trample the lonely queen of the Earth’s satellites, hoping that the Moon’s heart will not cool down too much and they will become victims of the cracks in her soul.