Seismic activity on the moon could pose risk to long-term lunar infrastructure

A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from moonquakes, rather than meteor impacts, was responsible for shifting lunar landscapes at the moon's Taurus-Littrow valley, where Apollo 17 astronauts landed in 1972. The study also pinpointed a possible cause for those surface changes and assessed damage risk using new models of the quakes--findings that may impact the safety of future lunar missions and the establishment of long-term bases on the moon.