We know this because, in April 1972, Apollo astronauts put a primitive UV camera on the Descartes Highlands on the Moon during their visit there. The images it produced of the geocorona were ...
The Moon’s surface is continuously bombarded by the solar wind – a stream of electrically charged particles ejected by the Sun. These high-energy ions can knock atoms out of the Moon’s uppermost layer ...
The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community stated that clearly in the 2020 Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 ...
Mercury’s exosphere, a tenuous envelope where collisions between particles are rare, offers unique insights into surface–space interactions and the dynamic processes that govern atmospheric evolution.