The Moon’s Shape Reveals Its Secrets
August 23, 2025
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as posted by the channelIn 1952, Harold Urey showed that the Moon’s gravity and shape reveal limits on its internal temperature.
If the Moon’s core ever neared the melting point of silicates, it should have reshaped like a fluid—yet it didn’t.
That means the Moon’s moment of inertia, its resistance to rotation, holds clues to a rigid, uneven interior.
Unlike Earth, the Moon bulges not just at the equator… but also toward Earth itself.
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