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Old 09-11-2008, 03:06 AM   #2
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Default Re: Atmosphere on the Moon - A Study

EXHIBIT #6

Moon's Extended Sodium Atmosphere


Credit: Boston University

The outer limits of the lunar sodium exosphere.
A new wide-angle coronagraphic-type imaging system used for the lunar eclipse of 16 July 2000 resulted in detections of the lunar sodium exosphere out to 20 lunar radii, approximately twice the size recorded with narrower fields of view during previous eclipses.

SOURCE: Boston University
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Now John has spoken with Howard Menger who has been to the Moon and gave a description of the color of the sky on the Moon.... A saffron yellow color. As sodium gives of a yellowish orange color... perhaps the high sodium content in the Lunar Atmosphere accounts for what Howard saw?

Well according to Howard...

True Color of the Lunar Sky

We sent Howard a color chart and had him mark the color as he remembered it... here is that chart...



See Opinion by John Lear

See Howard Menger's Story (Awaiting reprint approval)

We took Copernicus Crater and added the True Color Sky...



Alan Bean however, describes the Lunar Sky...

"...as black as a pair of black patent leather shoes!"

Sodium Beam Laser being fired from Kirtland AFB

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