Swiss cheese moon? More like a raisin.
According to new data and images, the Earth’s moon is cooling, causing it to lose 150 feet in circumference over the past few hundred million years as it slowly shrinks like a grape into a raisin.
Moon Shrinkage Causing Massive Quaking: What It Means for Space Exploration
Over hundreds of millions of years, the moon has shrunk like a grape becoming a raisin.
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A.C. Dahnke is a freelance writer and editor residing in California. She has covered community journalism and health care news for nearly a decade, winning a California Newspaper Publishers Award for her work.
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