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SwRI-led sounder instrument deploys across lunar surface

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Just hours after touching down on the surface of the moon on March 2nd aboard Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 lander, the Southwest Research Institute-led Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) was activated and deployed its five sensors to study the moon's interior by measuring electric and magnetic fields. The LMS instrument is the first extraterrestrial application of magnetotellurics.

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SwRI-led sounder instrument deploys across lunar surface

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