Lunar swirls are strange bright features on the moon. Their nature is enigmatic, but researchers have found surprising hints that they correspond to dips in the ground.
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Lunar swirls aren’t just skin-deep. These strange bright patterns on the moon’s surface don’t seem to be simply draped across the ground, as researchers thought, but instead correlate with topographical changes. This means they may be more complicated than we realised. The swirls, which resemble cream being stirred into coffee, range in size from a few metres across to more than 50 kilometres, and they have been spotted all over
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