Friday, August 22, 2025

What is the Moon Made Of? (Hint: It’s Not Cheese)

A petrographic thin section of Apollo 17 sample 72275, a fragmental breccia. Photo credit: Randy Korotev

A set of instruments shut off almost 50 years ago are still producing useful results. It’s the seismometers left by the Apollo missions to monitor moonquakes, which as the name suggests are earthquakes but on the Moon.



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