Does the Moon Have a Strange Ionosphere?

Monday, November 28, 2011 - 13:30 in Astronomy & Space

Researchers are proposing that floating lunar dust grains are ionized by UV rays from the sun to create the Moon's ionosphere. An ionosphere composed of dust instead of gas is a new frontier for science, one that NASA probes are set to study.

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