Scientists Were Wrong: Apollo 16 Rocks Rewrite the Story of the Moon’s Exosphere

Where does the Moon’s exosphere originate? A study by TU Wien, based on analysis of actual lunar rock, shows that the impact of solar wind ions in eroding the Moon’s surface has been greatly overestimated. The Moon’s surface is constantly exposed to the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emitted by the Sun. These [...]

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