Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spectrometer Detects Helium, LAMP sees helium in moon's atmosphere |
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spectrometer Detects Helium, LAMP sees helium in moon's atmosphere |
Aug 16 2012, 04:39 PM
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news...m-detected.html
QUOTE Scientists using the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) spectrometer aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have made the first spectroscopic observations of the noble gas helium in the tenuous atmosphere surrounding the moon.
-------------------- Lyford Rome
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