Moon Tremors

[steve_bank]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/14/world/moonquakes-apollo-17-scn/index.html

CNN —

A spacecraft left behind by US astronauts on the lunar surface could be causing small tremors known as moonquakes, according to a new study.

Researchers revealed the previously unknown form of seismic activity on the moon for the first time through an analysis of Apollo-era data using modern algorithms.

Massive temperature swings that occur on the moon can cause human-made structures to expand and contract in a way that produces these vibrations, the report suggests. The lunar surface is an extreme environment, oscillating between minus 208 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 133 degrees Celsius) in the dark and 250 degrees Fahrenheit (121 degrees Celsius) in direct sun, according to a news release about the study.

In fact, the entire surface of the moon expands and contracts in the cold and heat, noted the study published September 5 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. Yet scientists were able to use a form of artificial intelligence to gain such an intimate understanding of the Apollo-era data that they could pinpoint gentle tremors that emitted from an Apollo 17 lunar lander module sitting a few hundred yards away from instruments recording the moonquakes, according to a synopsis of the study by researchers from institutions including the California Institute of Technology and NASA. (NASA provided funding for the study.)

 

[Politesse]

We are such a disaster species sometimes. Can't take us anywhere.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Now imagine what we'll do when we land somewhere with life.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Now imagine what we'll do when we land somewhere with life.

If history is any guide we will murder and rape.

 

[steve_bank]

'Wherever you go, there you are'.

Lions are lions and grizzly bears are grizzly bears here on Earth or anywhere else. Humans are humans.

That is why I'd give a Mars colony or mission to Mars 6 months to a year before they turn on each other.

Some hums self loath humans thinking we should or could be something else.