reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
Yeah...it's glare. There's no atmosphere on the Moon...or no meaningful atmosphere. What there is can be condensed into an estimated 10
tonnes. A large part of that is caused by lunar outgassing. What little atmosphere
there is can be attributed to...
...creation of the atmosphere through impacts is known as "sputtering". Earth-based telescopes have detected sodium and potassium in a diffuse
cloud around the Moon, and NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft detected radon-222 and polonium-201. Finally, detectors carried by the Apollo
astronauts turned up argon, helium, oxygen, methane, nitrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. But you've got to appreciate that these are in
extremely low quantities. Atmosphere of the Moon
Naturally, we can't rule out that when NASA faked the half-dozen manned lunar landings they made the actors wear astronaut 'costumes' to fake the
absence of atmosphere. We also can't rule out the possibility that amateur astronomers have missed the winds and dust devils that would occur due to
the atmosphere.
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