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Moon shrank nearly 45 meters as orbiter images reveal more than 10,000 faults

Cooling and contraction can produce faults across the lunar surface, with implications for future missions and long-term habitation.

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Full Moon photograph taken 10-22-2010 from Madison, Alabama, USA. Photographed with a Celestron 9.25 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Acquired with a Ca…
Full Moon photograph taken 10-22-2010 from Madison, Alabama, USA. Photographed with a Celestron 9.25 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Acquired with a Canon EOS Rebel T1i (EOS 500D), 20 images stacked to reduce noise. Gregory H. Revera · CC BY-SA 3.0

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