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Seismometers were deployed during each of the Apollo missions that reached the lunar surface and for decades have been used to investigate the internal structure of the Moon.

📷 The lunar mass spectrometer, one of the instruments of the ALSEP, is seen in the foreground.
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Decades? I thought the ALSEP packages were shut down in 1977.

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