Over recent geologic time, as the lunar interior cooled and contracted the entire moon shrank by about 100 m. As a result, its brittle crust ruptured and thrust faults (compression) formed distinctive ...

Recent earthquakes that have shaken California may be a result of a Southern California fault line considered even more dangerous than the San Andreas fault. Los Angeles was rattled by a 4.4 magnitude ...

A 2010 analysis of imagery from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) found that the moon shriveled like a raisin as its interior cooled, leaving behind thousands of cliffs called thrust faults on ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The moon is shrinking. And as the crust of our lone satellite contracts, it tugs on cliff-like ...

Based on my research, which include image composites of two flyby views of Mercury from the MESSENGER spacecraft, I conclude that Mercury has not cooled and shrunken as much as previously thought.