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The Moon is shrinking and getting wrinkles

Mark Frauenfelder
Feb 19, 2026
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Two Men Contemplating the Moon. Caspar David Friedrich German ca. 1825–30. Public Domain

The Moon is wrinkling like a drying apple. As its interior slowly cools, the whole thing contracts, and the crust buckles and cracks under the pressure. Smithsonian scientists have now mapped the extent, finding 1,114 previously unknown ridges spread across the Moon’…

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