Shake it 🫨⁣ ⁣ The most sensitive instrument ever built to measure quakes and meteor strikes on other worlds is getting closer to its journey to the Moon.⁣ ⁣ This instrument is one of two seismometers in the Farside Seismic Suite (FSS), which was recently assembled at NASAJPL. FSS was adapted for the lunar surface from instruments originally designed for NASA’s InSight Mars lander, which recorded more than 1,300 marsquakes before the mission’s conclusion in 2022.⁣ ⁣ FSS is expected to arrive in 2026 at Schrödinger basin, a wide impact crater about 300 miles (500 km) from the Moon’s South Pole. After being delivered to the surface by a lunar lander under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, the suite will return NASA’s first seismic data from the Moon since the last Apollo program seismometers were in operation nearly 50 years ago.⁣ ⁣ Up to 30 times more sensitive than its Apollo predecessors, the suite will record the Moon’s seismic “background” vibration, which ...