Moon Swathed In High-Altitude Dust

HOUSTON—NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (Ladee) has detected an apparent perpetual cloud of dust around the Moon and attributed its asymmetrical shape to impacts from cometary particles and meteors, according to a Ladee instrument science team led by University of Colorado...

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