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Astronomers Finally Explain How Molecules From Earth's Atmosphere Keep Winding Up On the Moon


An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: Particles from Earth's atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study [published in the journal Nature Communications Earth & E...

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