Chand chupa badal me...no, really. The moon is just shrinking away
While the latest research says that the moon is shrinking, it will take at least another 1500 billion years for it to vanish completely. Saw the moon last evening? Or either of the past two evenings? Did you see a brighter and bigger moon? Let the present sight not fool you. The latest research conducted by the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) says that the Moon is shrinking as it becomes cooler from the inside. The phenomenon isn’t new. Science establishes that the romantic’s muse has shrunk by almost 46 meters in the past millions of years. So what happens when the moon shrinks? Imagine a grape shrinking. When it shrinks, it wrinkles and shrivels to a raisin. Similarly, the moon wrinkles as it shrinks, and because the moon’s surface crust is brittle unlike the flexible skin on a grape, the surface breaks with the shrinking and “thrust faults” where one section of the crust is pushed up over a neighbouring part. These thrust faults resemble small stair-step shaped...