When I read this article this morning I was confused by "In two years NASA will launch InSight" and "The New Horizons spacecraft will make a close flyby in 2015". I had to scroll to the bottom of the article to see the sheepish confession that this is a re-run from 2014. Look of disapproval.
"“so it creates not only a crustal asymmetry but also a thermal asymmetry.” A concentration of heat on one side of the moon could also cause it to expand"
Another recent paper I read suggested that there was a heat asymmetry because the earth was molten after the collision that produced the moon, and the moon being smaller cooled off quicker, except for the nearside that was receiving earthshine which would have been comparable to a nearby star.
Edit: it seems the article is from 2014, so maybe that was before the paper I'm referring to.
When I read this article this morning I was confused by "In two years NASA will launch InSight" and "The New Horizons spacecraft will make a close flyby in 2015". I had to scroll to the bottom of the article to see the sheepish confession that this is a re-run from 2014. Look of disapproval.
"“so it creates not only a crustal asymmetry but also a thermal asymmetry.” A concentration of heat on one side of the moon could also cause it to expand"
Another recent paper I read suggested that there was a heat asymmetry because the earth was molten after the collision that produced the moon, and the moon being smaller cooled off quicker, except for the nearside that was receiving earthshine which would have been comparable to a nearby star.
Edit: it seems the article is from 2014, so maybe that was before the paper I'm referring to.