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A GROWING body of evidence leads to the conclusion that luminescence effects occur on the lunar surface. Large intensity fluctuations on the Moon have been observed photographically by Kopal and Rackham1, spectroscopically by Spinrad2, and photometrically and polarimetrically by Gehrels et al.3. If the luminescence phenomena are induced by the solar wind (see Nash4), we might do well to look to other bodies in the solar system, which are similarly unprotected by an atmosphere, for evidence of luminescence.
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CRUIKSHANK, D. Possible Luminescence Effects on Mercury. Nature 209, 701 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209701a0
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