{"id":440494,"date":"2025-09-21T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/440494\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:22:11","slug":"chinese-team-finds-lunar-landslides-taking-place-triggered-by-moonquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/440494\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese team finds lunar landslides taking place, triggered by moonquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists said they found active landslides taking place on the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3321150\/china-completes-key-lander-test-preparation-crewed-moon-mission-2030?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">moon<\/a>, primarily triggered by moonquakes.The team said their findings will help to select more stable sites for future lunar bases, as China expands its <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/chinas-space-programme?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">space exploration ambitions<\/a>, which include setting up a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3310315\/china-and-russia-sign-nuclear-reactor-deal-fuel-lunar-research-station?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">research station<\/a> in the lunar south pole region by 2035.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The researchers from Sun Yat\u2010sen University, Fuzhou University and Shanghai Normal University published their findings in the peer-reviewed National Science Review on September 11. The English-language journal is supervised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHuman civilisation has never been closer to establishing permanent infrastructures on the moon, which will serve as scientific research stations and\/or deep-space outposts,\u201d the team wrote.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhile moonquakes were detected during the Apollo missions, conventional geological wisdom posited that lunar endogenic activity had essentially ceased, leaving geological hazard assessments of lunar seismicity largely unexplored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-1w1l3op e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CLEAN---thumbnail.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewDuration\" class=\"css-1vqvq42 e1o401181\">01:57<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">China\u2019s Chang\u2019e-6 mission returns to Earth with first samples from moon\u2019s far side<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Chang\u2019e-6 mission returns to Earth with first samples from moon\u2019s far side<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the new analysis, the team detected 41 new landslides on the moon formed since 2009. They did this by comparing 562 pairs of before and after images of 74 sites in the least stable areas on the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists said they found active landslides taking place on the moon, primarily triggered by moonquakes.The team said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[144081,149051,1395,17854,149053,149055,149059,1497,149054,874,149058,70,149052,413,41329,16,15,149056,149057],"class_list":{"0":"post-440494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-apollo-missions","9":"tag-change-8-lunar-mission","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","12":"tag-fuzhou-university","13":"tag-lunar-bases","14":"tag-lunar-south-pole","15":"tag-moon","16":"tag-moonquakes","17":"tag-nasa","18":"tag-national-science-review","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-shanghai-normal-university","21":"tag-space","22":"tag-sun-yat-sen-university","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-xiao-zhiyong","26":"tag-zhang-wuming"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115241323742187845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}