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The Lunar Atmosphere: a surface-bounded exosphere that builds a record of delivery of water to the Earth’s oceans

Written on August 15, 2018.

– By Paul Godin, Jacob Kloos, Tue Giang Nguyen, Jasmeer Sangha, and John Moores, Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University –

The moon has been and still is an area of great interest in the field of planetary sciences. Because its atmosphere is extremely thin (typically, you will find no more than one million molecules per cubic centimeter,

Photograph of the Curiosity rover on Mars

Watching the Dust and Clouds Lazily Float by During a Martian Summer

Written on September 1, 2017.

– By J.E. Moores, C.L. Smith and C.L. Campbell, York University –

A scientific rover named Curiosity has been trundling around on Mars for the past 5 years, taking images of the atmosphere to look at cloud and dust. Because of data constraints, our group at York University get about 12 minutes of time every week or so. Imagine trying to understand the weather by looking at only one section of the sky once a week through a toilet paper tube!