{"id":17297,"date":"2023-09-18T17:16:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17297"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:16:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:46:55","slug":"moonquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/18-09-2023\/moonquakes","title":{"rendered":"Moonquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS1\/ Important Geographical phenomenon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An earthquake is caused when tectonic plates shift, however, the quakes themselves aren\u2019t restricted to the earth.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Small tremors have also been detected on the moon<\/strong>. They aren\u2019t the handiwork of tectonic plates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Instead, the moon is practically <strong>groaning from extreme temperature differences<\/strong> \u2013 from 121 degrees to \u2013133 degrees Celsius, a breathtaking range of 250 degrees Celsius. The <strong>resulting strain leads to seismic activities called moonquakes.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They <strong>can also occur due to meteors striking the lunar surface. <\/strong>Indeed, the surface is pockmarked with thousands of craters \u2013 not surprising because the <strong>moon\u2019s lack of an atmosphere allows even small impacts to be powerful enough to deform the ground.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Researchers also found another cause that the <strong>Apollo 17 lunar lander module (1972), may also have triggered some tremors.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Scientists using artificial intelligence found that <strong>the lander itself set off very feeble seismic movements on the moon <\/strong>as it adjusted to the natural satellite\u2019s drastic temperature changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As countries around the world, including India<strong>, plan to establish outposts on the lunar surface, studying moonquakes and their causes is crucial<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It will also <strong>help us build structures on the moon that don\u2019t topple if a lander descends nearby.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: T<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/52302\/OPS\/GIVBP1DLD.1+GMLBP1G8E.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>H<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus: GS1\/ Important Geographical phenomenon News About Source: TH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17298,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17297\/revisions\/17298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}