NYTimes: The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth.
In a recent article from NYTimes, CSP’s Senior Research Scientist Jeffrey Baumgardner discusses the comet-like tail of the Moon. An animation shows how sodium atoms ejected from the lunar surface are affected by the moon’s orbit around planet Earth. Video by James O’Donoghue/@PhysicsJ, based on simulations by Jody K. Wilson. Carl Sagan once said that […]