Apollo missions, co<\/a>nventional geological wisdom posited that lunar endogenic activity had essentially ceased, leaving geological hazard assessments of lunar seismicity largely unexplored,\u201d the team added.<\/p>\n\u201cAmong known triggers of landslides on the moon, endogenic seismic activity is the most plausible cause for most of the detected new landslides. While sources of endogenic seismic activity on the moon are not completely understood yet, this interpretation aligns with the current thermal state of the moon, that the lunar interior remains active enough to drive endogenic seismic activity,\u201d the researchers said.<\/p>\n
While the observed landslides were relatively small\u2014mostly less than 1 kilometre long and 100 meters wide\u2014researchers advise caution. According to the lead author, Professor Xiao Zhiyong from Sun Yat-sen University, the landslides are relatively small, but caution is necessary.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt provides reassurance that the landslides we observed are likely to have limited impacts. Still, we should remain cautious because disaster assessments from Earth may not be fully applicable on the moon. Operations close to steep slopes may be threatened more by active landslides,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to Xiao, moonquakes produced seismic waves that attenuated, or lost energy, very slowly since the lunar surface was dry with minimal water. \u201cChina\u2019s Chang\u2019e-8 lunar mission will carry a seismometer near the lunar south pole to detect moonquakes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Study co-author Zhang Wuming, a professor at Sun Yat-sen University, stated that the team created a method to perfectly match high-resolution satellite photos of the same sites collected at different periods.<\/p>\n
The findings will aid in selecting safer sites for future lunar bases, such as China’s planned research station at the Moon’s south pole by 2035.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists have confirmed that active landslides, triggered by moonquakes, are taking place on the Moon. This could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28989,25165,85,46,28992,28990,8245,25166,25171,141,28991],"class_list":{"0":"post-34713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-chinese-scientists","9":"tag-fuzhou-university","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-lunar-body","13":"tag-lunar-landslides","14":"tag-moon","15":"tag-moonquakes","16":"tag-national-science-review","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-sun-yatsen-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}