Orbiter Maps Temperatures At Lunar Pole
Credit: NASA/GSFC/UCLA
Temperatures comparable to those that would be found in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the Solar System exist at the Moon’s north pole, kept as cold as 25K by the permanent darkness at the bottoms of deep craters there. The Diviner lunar radiometer experiment on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
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