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The researchers suggest that the Moon will further contract, but at a continually slowing rate. They figure that the contraction of the Moon by these scarps is about half completed.

The National Geographic News article provides an image of a lobate scarp discovered by the LRO camera.

The article provides further details of the discovery made by the U.S. scientists.

The authors of the paper and the researchers of the study include: Thomas R. Watters, Mark S. Robinson, Ross A. Beyer, Maria E. Banks, James F. Bell, III, Matthew E. Pritchard, Harald Hiesinger, Carolyn H. van der Bogert, Peter C. Thomas, Elizabeth P. Turtle, and Nathan R. Williams.