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The Luminescence of the Moon

There is more to moonlight than reflected sunlight. The moon's surface sometimes glows with its own luminescence, apparently stimulated by the impact of charged particles from solar flares

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 212 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “The Luminescence of the Moon” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 212 No. 5 (), p. 28
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0565-28