Meteorite impacts identified as driver of moon's tenuous atmosphere

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WASHINGTON Reuters) - The NASA astronauts who became the first people to land on the moon's surface in the 1960s and 1970s also discovered a previously unknown lunar characteristic - it has an atmosphere, though quite tenuous.

The lunar atmosphere contains mainly argon, helium and neon, along with potassium and rubidium and possibly other elements at lesser levels.

Instead of investigating the actual atoms in the lunar atmosphere, the researchers used lunar soil, called regolith, as a proxy.

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Topics: Rubidium Solar Impacts Atoms Lunar Soil Moon Atmosphere Potassium Study Surface

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