NASA recently announced the postponement of the manned Artemis 3 mission, which will land humans on the moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Despite the delay, the revised 2026 launch date is rapidly approaching, and preparations are well underway for the mission, which will also send the first astronauts to a landing near the moon's south pole.
Now, a new paper published in Planetary Science Journal He threw a spanner in the works. The paper focuses on the fact that the Moon is shrinking and the surface distortion this causes on the Moon's south pole.
In it, scientists highlight a number of Artemis landing sites that are particularly vulnerable to these moonquakes.
