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"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Ng8hg.19521$1i1.13869@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> An old Apollo experiment is telling researchers
> something new and surprising about the moon.
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> http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/07dec_moonstorms.htm?list89139
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> December 7, 2005: Every lunar morning, when the sun first peeks over
> the dusty soil of the moon after two weeks of frigid lunar night, a
> strange storm stirs the surface.
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> The next time you see the moon, trace your finger along the terminator,
> the dividing line between lunar night and day. That's where the storm
> is. It's a long and skinny dust storm, stretching all the way from the
> north pole to the south pole, swirling across the surface, following
> the terminator as sunrise ceaselessly sweeps around the moon.
>
> See:
> http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/07dec_moonstorms.htm?list89139
Very interesting, thankyou.
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