The Apollo 17 lunar lander base is creating small-scale moonquakes on a daily basis.
So while these new moonquakes might not be moon-generated quakes, they're still contributing to our seismic knowledge of the celestial body — and that's particularly important for future lunar development.
"It's important to know as much as we can from the existing data so we can design experiments and missions to answer the right questions," said Husker."The Moon is the only planetary body other than the Earth to have had more than one seismometer on it at a time. It gives us the only opportunity to thoroughly study another body."
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