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18 June 2009
NASA IBEX Spacecraft Detects Neutral Hydrogen Bouncing Off The Moon
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.   Launched last October, the IBEX has a mission to image and map the dynamic interactions caused by the hot solar wind slamming into the cold expanse of [...]
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