Is Earth Rusting the Moon??

The Moon resides nearly a quarter of a million miles from Earth, give or take, but that great distance doesn't appear to protect it from Earth's "pollution." According to several space and planetary scientists, the Moon is rusting, and oxygen from Earth is to blame.

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Writing in Geophysical Research Letters, an international team led by Xiandi Zeng (Macau University of Science and Technology, Tapai, China) describes evidence that streams of charged particles blow like wind from Earth to its celestial companion during brief five-day tim