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Every 29.5 days, as the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, our planet ploughs through a vast tail of sodium atoms knocked from the lunar surface and swept outward by sunlight.
The Moon maintains a diffuse sodium tail that Earth crosses around each new moon, when our planet’s gravity focuses part of the stream into a spot visible to specialised cameras. The post Every 29.5 days, as the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, our planet ploughs through a vast tail of sodium atoms knocked from the lunar surface and swept outward by sunlight. appeared first on Space Daily .
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