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The Moon is Still Shrinking as it Cools. That Could Create a Hazard for Lunar Mission.


The Moon is slowly cooling and slowly shrinking. A study of its scarp faults calculates the rate of shrinkage, showing that it's extremely small. But the shrinking could still create landslides, a potential hazard for missions to the lunar surface.

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