16.08.2012 - 09:19 [ NASA ]

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spectrometer Detects Helium in Moon‘s Atmosphere

„The question now becomes, does the helium originate from inside the moon, for example, due to radioactive decay in rocks, or from an exterior source, such as the solar wind?“ says Dr. Alan Stern, LAMP principal investigator and associate vice president of the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colo.