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Moon's surface is pretty cracked up, getting worse with time and meteor impacts
FirstpostThe Moon is far less dense & has way more deep fissures than scientists thought it did. Wiggins and his colleagues also used computer simulations to find out how deeply and widely the lunar crust might have been cracked by impacts from asteroids and any other debris from the early solar system. The cracks grew, over time, and connected to create a lunar crust that is very fragmented — called the “megaregolith.” The density of the Moon is also much lower than scientists had earlier thought. “Data gathered by GRAIL showed that the moon’s crust was far less dense than expected”, Wiggins told Live Science. By putting together detailed maps of the Moon’s megaregolith, scientists are hoping to better understand how those regions conduct heat differently.
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每日一词|高精度月球表面化学成分分布图 chemical composition distribution map of the lunar surface with high precision
China Daily
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