The Moon has been shown to have a "tail" of sodium atoms too faint to be detected by the human eye. Hundreds of thousands of kilometers long, the feature...

the atmosphere relatively close to us, while impacts on the Moon would be visible from across the Moon in a single view. The sodium tail of the Moon tripled...

Environment Explorer (LADEE) Orders of magnitude (pressure) Sodium tail of the Moon "Lunar horizon glow from Surveyor 7". The Planetary Society. May 6, 2016...

Lunar soil is the fine fraction of lunar regolith found on the surface of the Moon and in the Moon's tenuous atmosphere. Lunar soil differs in its origin...

distance of 10 times the radius of Io. Io has a sodium tail similar to the Sodium tail of the Moon. Io also has an ionosphere with a density of 2.8 × 1010 m−3 at...

October 2023, the orbiter discovered an abundance of sodium on the Moon. The moon is shown to have a tail of Sodium atoms thousands of Kilometers long...

highly reactive metal. Sodium is an alkali metal, being in group 1 of the periodic table. Its only stable isotope is 23Na. The free metal does not occur...

Ray system of the Moon Sodium tail of the Moon Space weathering Topography of the Moon Transient lunar phenomenon Selenography – study of the surface and...

sodium tail, and the narrow and diffuse components of the tail may have different origins. While the comet's dust tail roughly followed the path of the...

comet-like tail behind it. The main component in the tail is sodium, which has been detected beyond 24 million km (1000 RM) from the planet. This sodium tail expands...