The moon is shrinking.

Photographs taken by the probe LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) sen by American Space Agency (NASA) to investigate the satellite orbit, revealed that in the recent past - at least in astronomical terms - the circumference of the lunar surface contracted 100m. The discovery was reported by scientist Thomas Watters in an article published in the journal Science.The photographs revealed 14 new slopes lobules - small features that until now was believed to have been caused by tectonic faults - on the lunar surface. They are the youngest formations of the satellite and, according to Watters, probably are present throughout the Moon. Image analysis suggests that the scarps were formed during a period of contraction, less than a billion years (in terms of comparison, Earth has more than 4 billion years), when the moon froze and shrunk its size. Before the images taken by the LRO, the slopes had been identified by the cameras of Apollo 15, 16 and 17, which only managed to register 20% of the natural satellite’s surface. Because of the limitation, it was believed that the slopes were restricted to the region of the lunar equator. According to the article by Watters, but they are present throughout the Moon "Although many lobate scarps are found in the mountains, we saw that they are everywhere. Before, it was believed that they were just in the equatorial portion because of the pictures taken by the panoramic cameras of Apollo, "Watters told the Mail.The head of the LRO mission, Mark Robinson, is excited about the ability of the probe to capture images that reveal hitherto unknown aspects of the Moon "The images in high resolution are changing our view of the moon," said Robinson, who is also professor at the University Arizona and co-author of the research through the press office at NASA. "Not only detect scarps still unknown, but we get to see much more detail than we could of these configurations based only on pictures taken by the Apollo missions."

The moon! Source of inspiration for so many stories, it’s so romantic looking to the sky on a full moon and see it lit the night; also lovers of horror films that has the moon as a protagonist. What would the werewolf say knowing such news?

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