The Moon Is Getting Warmer

In the seventies, on the apollo 15 and 17 missions, astronauts set up temperature probes tocollect data. The measurements from the probes showed that after the astronauts landed, the temperature on the moon went up one to two degrees celsius. But it wasn't clear why this happened. Researchers decided they really wanted to solve this mystery. They hunted down a set of archival tapes that, like, i guess people just didn't remember had existed, and that contained the data. And then even when they found those tapes, they still had to extract the data and analyze it. So that took several years still, because these are like, seventies magnetic so it took a while. Based

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