The Moon quakes just like the Earth — and apparently, the addition of the Apollo 17 base more than 50 years ago made it quake a bit harder.
To study these tremors, the Apollo 17 astronauts placed three seismometer arrays near their lunar base that recorded moonquake activity between October 1976 to May 1977. Unfortunately, those readings were left largely unexamined until the last few years., the Caltech researchers used machine learning models to find that alongside the precisely timed tremors from the Moon itself, there were some strange additional seismic signatures.
"If we could put up a few seismometers [on the lunar south pole], we could look for water ice that may be trapped in the subsurface," the research professor said, adding that "seismic waves travel slower through water." More recently, India put another seismometer on the Moon during its uncrewed mission last month — and that instrument, too,"The Moon is the only planetary body other than the Earth to have had more than one seismometer on it at a time," Husker said. "It gives us the only opportunity to thoroughly study another body."
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