"The moon is shrinking and crumbling and this will cause earthquakes and landslides," experts warn - voila! technology. Earth's natural satellite has lost about 100 meters in circumference over the past hundreds of millions of years as its core cooled.

Researchers have linked faults located at the planet's south pole to one of the strongest lunar quakes recorded by the Apollo seismograph more than 50 years ago. The US space agency NASA hopes to launch its first crewed flight to the Moon in more than five decades later this year.