(L-R) Contamination Control Engineer Diane Briczinski, Acting Science Mission Directorate Chief Engineer Synthia Tonn, and Lead Payload Systems Engineer Sam Hicks inspect the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) instrument in the cleanroom at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. on January 12th, 2026. LEMS is a compact, autonomous, and self-sustaining seismometer suite designed to carry out continuous, long-term, monitoring of the lunar seismic environment at the South Polar region. Photo Credit: NASA/Denny Henry
Photographer NASA / Denny Henry
Album Lunar-Environment-Monitoring-Station-LEMS
Date January 12, 2026