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Overlooked Apollo data from the 1970s reveals huge record of 'hidden' moonquakes


A reanalysis of 50-year-old Apollo mission data long abandoned by NASA has revealed 22,000 previously unrecognized moonquakes, almost tripling the known number of seismic lunar events.

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