Tumbling Boulders Leave Trails on the Moon
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class="wp-caption-text">Images from Moon Zoo showing trails from tumbling boulders in the Montes Alpes/Vallis Alpes region on the Moon. Credit: NASA/LRO/Moon Zoo.
There's probably a great story in this image, if only someone was there to witness it as it happened! This is an image from href="http://www.moonzoo.org/">Moon Zoo, the citizen science project from the href="http://www.zooniverse.org/home">Zooniverse that asks people to look at images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and search for href="http://www.universetoday.com/54726/craters/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">craters, boulders and more. And often, the Zooites find some very interesting features on the href="http://www.universetoday.com/46646/moon/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Moon, like this one and the ones below that include tracks from rolling, bounding, tumbling and sometimes bouncing boulders. Then the task for the scientists is to figure out what actually happened to get these boulders moving — was it an impact, are the boulder on the bottom of a hill, or was it some other unknown catalyst? As href="http://www.universetoday.com/47501/galaxy-zoo-is-expanding-to-include-a-whole-new-zooniverse/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Zooniverse founder Chris Lintott says, "href="http://www.universetoday.com/19424/the-moon/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">The Moon has its own landscape that is really quite dramatic, so it?s a world well worth exploring."
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