Dynamic Moon!
It was once thought that the Moon’s surface did not change much on a human timescale, and that erosional processes took hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of millions of years to significantly alter the surface. Now, the LROC Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) meter-scale imagesare revealing small surface changes that are transforming the surface much faster than previously thought! From before and after images (temporal pairs) acquired by the NAC, we identified over 200 impact craters that formed during the LRO mission. These new craters range from several meters up to 43 meters in diameter.
Dynamic Moon!
It was once thought that the Moon’s surface did not change much on a human timescale, and that erosional processes took hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of millions of years to significantly alter the surface. Now, the LROC Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) meter-scale imagesare revealing small surface changes that are transforming the surface much faster than previously thought! From before and after images (temporal pairs) acquired by the NAC, we identified over 200 impact craters that formed during the LRO mission. These new craters range from several meters up to 43 meters in diameter.