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How radiation from the sun affects the moon

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Cornelia Bormann
March 29, 2025

Our sun emits light, heat, high-energy radiation and electrically charged particles into space that constantly bombard the moon, which has no atmosphere or magnetic field. What effect does that torrent of energy have on its surface?

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