Apr
18

The Moon and the magnetotail

By Ben Tremblay

NASA has published an extremely interesting article about still unknown phenomenons happening on the Moon when it goes through Earth’s magnetotail. NASA says the Moon is not as static as we previously thought:

“Earth’s magnetotail extends well beyond the orbit of the Moon and, once a month, the Moon orbits through it,” says Tim Stubbs, a University of Maryland scientist working at the Goddard Space Flight Center. “This can have consequences ranging from lunar ‘dust storms’ to electrostatic discharges.”

Read the NASA article about the Moon and the magnetotail here.

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Categories : Science, space

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