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NASA's LRO Reveals 'Incredible Shrinking Moon
Many of my designs incorporate nature, and one specifically the moon (filed under "Landscape"). I spent some time figuring out how to represent a full and crescent moon together, and opted for an imagined "moon shadow." I added a cluster of grass to make it more interesting and to depict a harvest moon, when the moon is at its brightest.
Nasa has an article and images on its website reporting that the moon is shrinking. And here is an interview (with a transcript) at NPR with space scientist Thomas Watters explaining the phenomenon.
