From the San Francisco Chronicle (Pics added by B.S. Report)
By David Perlman, Science Editor
No word yet on whether "global warming" is the reason for the shrinkage...
The moon may be shrinking, scientists say.
But not to worry. It won’t disappear anytime soon.
NASA scientists studying images sent back to Earth from a spacecraft orbiting the moon have found curving lines of small cliffs on the surface that they say were thrust up as the moon’s sizzling hot interior cooled and shrank the surface over the past billion years.
“This is the first evidence that the moon has been shrinking, and may still be shrinking,” Michael Wargo, NASA’s chief lunar scientist, said during a press briefing Thursday. But it’s not enough shrinkage to notice from Earth. (Read more.)
The real estate market is being hit hard--even on the moon...
