Thread: The Fate of the Moon's Atmosphere?
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Old 30-March-2008, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by darkdrag0nlq View Post
I'm pretty sure the moons atmosphere is only out 1-2 inches from the surface.
Definitely not, the weaker a body's gravitational field the further its atmosphere extends, so the Moon's atmosphere probably extends further than Earth's (assuming that the effects of the solar wind don't tear it away before that). On the other hand a neutron star's atmosphere does extend only a couple of feet from its surface because of its enormous gravitational field.
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