NASA's Artemis science instrument gets tested in moon-like sandbox

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On Sept. 9 and 10, scientists and engineers tested NASA's LEMS (Lunar Environment Monitoring Station) instrument suite in a 'sandbox' of simulated moon regolith at the Florida Space Institute's Exolith Lab at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

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