India had landed its Chandrayaan on the South Pole of the Moon.
Now NASA is also planning to land Artemis astronauts here in the coming years. However, at present the condition of this area is critical and it is affected by earthquake.
This has come to light in a study which has been done in collaboration with NASA. This study has been published in the Planetary Science Journal. It has been reported in this study that this area has recently been found to be seismically active.
It has also come to light that the Moon is shrinking.
This study has been led by Tom Waters of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. There are indications that serious earthquakes may occur on the south pole of the Moon.
According to the information, there could be existing faults or new thrust faults behind these tremors, due to which the Moon is shrinking.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has played a key role in detecting thousands of small, young thrust faults in the Moon’s crust.
The strongest shock that occurred was in the southern polar region of the Moon. It was detected by the Apollo Passive Seismic Network.
Now NASA is also trying to find out how many such activities are taking place on the Moon. The team assessed the stability of surface slopes in the lunar south-polar region.
It has been found that in some areas there can be a risk of regolith landslides even with minor seismic activity. This study has also indicated that there may be snow here.