SCI061: The Moon is indeed shrinking. Caroline Knight explains to Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle how the Moon is contracting and cooling over time, causing moonquakes, shrinking about 150 feet every few hundred million years, and potentially affecting future Artemis lunar missions.

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* The Moon Is Shrinking, Causing Moonquakes at a Potential NASA Landing Site, Study Finds

* The Moon Is Slowly Shrinking, and That Could Be a Problem

* The Moon Is 40 Million Years Older Than Thought, Lunar Rock Samples Suggest

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