Scientists explore Sun's damaging radiation on the Moon timesnownews.com

With NASA planning to put astronauts back on the Moon, scientists have explored how Sun's harmful radiation left scars on the lunar surface. A team from the University of California-Berkeley studied data from NASA's ARTEMIS mission along with simulations of the Moon's magnetic environment. ARTEMIS is short for Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun. The data suggests that the solar wind and the Moon's crustal magnetic fields work together to give the Moon a distinctive pattern of darker and lighter swirls. The Sun releases a continuous outflow of particles and radiation called the solar wind, which spreads over the planets, Moons and other bodies in our solar system.