NASA’s Apollo Samples, LRO Help Scientists Forecast Moonquakes - NASA Science

NASA’s Apollo Samples, LRO Help Scientists Forecast Moonquakes

A person wearing a bulky, white spacesuit is partially visible on the left side of the image, extending a gloved hand toward a large, rough-textured, gray boulder. The boulder has a dusty, uneven surface with cracks and crevices. The person and boulder are lit up, while the background is mostly black. The person’s shadow provides a black shape cast on the boulder, highlighting the contours of both the boulder and the person.

Moonquakes pose little risk to astronauts during a mission lasting just a few days. But their effects on longer-term lunar surface assets could be significant.