Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
As part of the Artemis program, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex missions to ultimately build a sustained human presence at the Moon for decades to come. Firefly's Blue Ghost Lander will head to the Moon's Mare Crisium for a 14-day lunar lander mission to help understand the Moon’s subsurface in a previously unexplored location.
The Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) will probe the interior of the Moon to depths of up to 700 miles or two-thirds of the lunar radius. The measurements will shed light on the differentiation and thermal history of our Moon, a cornerstone to understanding the evolution of solid worlds.
LMS was funded and delivered to the lunar surface through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Southwest Research Institute built the central electronics and leads the science investigation. Goddard Space Flight Center provided the LMS magnetometer to measure the magnetic fields, and Heliospace Corp. provided the electrodes used to measure the electrical fields.
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As part of the Artemis program, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex missions to ultimately build a sustained human presence at the Moon for decades to come. Firefly's Blue Ghost Lander will head to the Moon's Mare Crisium for a 14-day lunar lander mission to help understand the Moon’s subsurface in a previously unexplored location.
The Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) will probe the interior of the Moon to depths of up to 700 miles or two-thirds of the lunar radius. The measurements will shed light on the differentiation and thermal history of our Moon, a cornerstone to understanding the evolution of solid worlds.
LMS was funded and delivered to the lunar surface through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Southwest Research Institute built the central electronics and leads the science investigation. Goddard Space Flight Center provided the LMS magnetometer to measure the magnetic fields, and Heliospace Corp. provided the electrodes used to measure the electrical fields.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Public Affairs Officer: Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC)
Editor: James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Music is "Human Behaviour" and "Overview Effect" from Jan Telegra of Universal Production Music.
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14750 While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14750. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/.
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