More information: Pekka Janhunen, Launching mass from the Moon helped by lunar gravity anomalies, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.09616. Provided by Universe Today.

You may have seen videos of astronauts jumping on the moon.Their movements appear bouncier and lighter than how we move on Earth, and this is thanks to gravity. Gravity is "the force by which a ...

However, the moon's gravitational field is not consistent throughout, as evidenced by Bouguer gravity anomalies. As Earth's natural satellite, the moon plays a vital role in shaping our planet's ...

Engineers didn't immediately acknowledge the issue during that broadcast, apart from one controller uttering "Whoa," followed ...

Anomalies in the moon’s gravitational field suggest our satellite’s insides are warmer on one side than the other – which means that its interior is asymmetric ...

Lopsided moon. While the detection of lunar gravity anomalies provides evidence for the sinking of a dense layer in the moon's interior and allows for a more precise estimate of how and when this ...

More information: Kristel Izquierdo et al, An Object‐Oriented Bayesian Gravity Inversion Scheme for Inferring Density Anomalies in Planetary Interiors, Earth and Space Science (2023). DOI: 10. ...

The GRAIL mission (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) discovered gravitational anomalies on the Moon, whereby one of the spacecraft would accelerate while flying over certain regions.