The full moon may not be protected by Earth’s magnetic field after all
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 09:41
in Astronomy & Space
Everyone revels in the full moon, but there is far more going on there than meets the eye. Even at night, solar wind from the sun’s atmosphere throughout the solar system, streaming energetic particles like protons and electrons in all directions. Earth’s moon has no atmosphere or magnetic field of its own to stop high-energy […]