It is the first seismic signal ever detected on the surface of a body other than Earth and its Moon.
Astronauts installed five seismometers that measured thousands of quakes while operating on the Moon between 1969 and 1977.
Both parts of the system observed the 6 April signal, although it wasn't possible to extract any information to make a more definitive statement about the likely source or the distance from the probe to the event.
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