GFZ German research centre for geo sciences

Johannes Hart and Laura Pinzon Rincon test Fibre Optics for the Moon

LUNA is a state-of-the-art facility that prepares future human and robotic missions to the Moon at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) site. As part of this effort, a team from GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Germany, contributed their expertise and instrumentation to support LUNA’s first optical fiber measurements. The fiber is buried beneath a regolith simulant by MUSC. The GFZ team installed the interrogator system and conducted the geo-calibration of the fibers. During four days of continuous recording, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) captured various signals, including the movement of a lunar rover prototype and hammer impacts from an active in-situ experiment. This technology enables high-resolution ground motion detection,  with potential uses on the Moon.

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