Magnetospheric Sputtering Source of the Moon's Exosphere

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Sep 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002dps....34.1901m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS Meeting #34, #19.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.876

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Observations of lunar eclipses over the past decade have revealed that the Moon's transient sodium atmosphere at full Moon is both denser and more extended near equinox than it is near solstice. This fact suggests the presence of a variable magnetospheric source of sodium. An investigation of this source is carried out by modeling combinations of two sources: a constant source from micrometeor sputtering and photon-stimulated desorption, and a variable source (presumably plasma sputtering), which is higher during equinox conditions and lower during solstice conditions.

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