NASA's LADEE mission shows the force of meteoroid strikes on lunar exosphere
Friday, December 18, 2015 - 02:20
in Astronomy & Space
NASA scientists have released new findings about the moon's tenuous exosphere – the thin layer of gas surrounding the moon that's one 25-trillionth the density of Earth's atmosphere. The data reveal, for the first time, that meteoroid strikes cause a predictable increase in the abundance of two key elements within the lunar exosphere.