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lunar atmosphere

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lunar atmosphere [′lü·nər ′at·mə‚sfir]
(astrophysics)
The volatile elements postulated to have been present on the moon's surface at one time.
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The idea was to measure the constituents of the tenuous lunar atmosphere during the descent.
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The imaging system took pictures of the Moon as it approached the surface, the radar was used to determine the altitude, and the mass spectrometer was used to study the thin lunar atmosphere.
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The video imaging system was intended to take the pictures of the moon's surface, the radar altimeter was to measure the rate of descent of the probe to the lunar surface and the mass spectrometer was for studying the extremely thin lunar atmosphere.
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