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Although the moon is
a relatively primitive body geologically,

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its arrested development provides insights
into the early evolution

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of other rocky bodies
like Venus, Earth, and Mars

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The Lunar Magnetotelluric

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Sounder is a geophysical instrument
designed to probe the moon's deep interior

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and provide new information

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on the structure and geological evolution
of our companion world.

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signals
that we're looking at from the solar wind

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and the Earth's magnetosphere
have frequencies that are way below

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what you might be familiar
with as radio waves.

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These signals take minutes
or even hours to complete a single cycle.

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The benefit of these

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very low frequency signals is that they
penetrate deeply into the moon,

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This allows us to determine

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the temperature and composition
of the interior of the moon.

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The magnetic fields are measured
by a magnetometer

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The electric fields are measured
between four probes

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that are deployed
at 90 degree angles around the lander.

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LMS will be among the first

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geophysical measurements
to assess interior properties of the moon

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Since Apollo.
LMS is both simpler to operate

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and has better performance than these
Apollo era experiments, Its demonstration

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paves the way for an even better version
on a later CLPS mission,

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as well as opportunities for other worlds,
including Mars.

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Our team at Southwest Research
Institute, Heliospace Corporation,

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and NASA Goddard all contributed

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to this first extraterrestrial magneto
measurement.

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Commercial Lunar Payload Services NASA
and American companies working together.