The Thin Exosphere of the Moon

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The moon has a thin atmosphere, classified as an “exosphere”. It’s not an atmosphere like the Earth’s, it’s more of an ethereal cloud of individual atoms drifting above the lunar surface. The pressure upon the moon is so low, approximately 10⁻¹² (10^{-12} or 0.000000000001 or 1 trillionth) in comparison to that of the Earth’s at … Continue reading The Thin Exosphere of the Moon The post The Thin Exosphere of the Moon appeared first on Learn Something Interesting.