Moon

The moon s surface is covered with solar power

With no magnetosphere, and almost no atmosphere, most of the lunar surface is directly exposed to solar wind and other space radiation. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image of Lunar Swirl. . Solar wind charges the Moon's surface with static electricity, which can levitate dust and build up on astronauts and rovers as they move. There's water on the Moon, and some of its atoms may come directly. . The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought to create this wispy gas envelope; tiny meteoroids hitting the surface and solar wind particles bombarding the lunar soil. It's composed of an iron-rich core, plus a mantle and crust containing minerals made of magnesium, oxygen, and silicon. The moon's surface was once geologically active and covered in. .

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