En regardant la lune dans le ciel nocturne, on n’imaginerait jamais qu’elle s’éloigne lentement de la Terre. Mais dans les faits, elle s’éloigne actuellement de 3,8 cm de la terre chaque année.
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scientists have uncovered the long-term history of our receding moon. And it’s not from studying the moon itself, but from reading signals in ancient layers of rock on Earth.
Layers of rock provide a historical record of variations in the Earth’s orbit, revealing information about the planet’s climate billions of years ago.
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