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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spectrometer Detects Helium, LAMP sees helium in moon's atmosphere
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post Aug 16 2012, 04:39 PM
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news...m-detected.html

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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.


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