PhD candidate, Utrecht University
Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5 billion years
Oct 11, 2022 04:27 am UTC| Science
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know otherwise. In 1969, NASAs Apollo missions installed reflective panels on the moon. These have shown...
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