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This is the experiment in question, for those curious: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_17/experiments/hf/ https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/m

This is the experiment in question, for those curious: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_17/experiments/hf/ https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_17/exp... The article outlines some of the details as well, but it was lacking in depth, which can be found in the experiment results and details links in the page above.

acqq 8y ago
More background on the device: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Surface_Experiments_Package https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Surface_Experim... Apparently just the plutonium in the power supply of only one of these units would cost today some 20 million USD. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17492902 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17492902