Scientists at the California University of Technology have found that the Apollo 17’s left-over lunar module is causing ‘moonquakes’ on the lunar surface.
A new study by researchers from the California University of Technology has revealed that the Apollo’s left-over lunar module is causing tiny “moonquakes” on the lunar surface.
Apollo 17 was launched in December 1972, when NASA astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed on the moon and left few things behind- a US flag
A Moon buggy and lunar module’s descent stage. It is this module that is now shaking the lunar surface.
The left-over lunar module contained an array of four geophones that are used to conduct seismic activity.
They were reactivated between October 1976 and May 1977 for passive listening. These seismometers recorded thousands of subtle tremors on the moon.