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lunar exosphere
  برون‌سپهر ِ ماه  
borun-sepehr-e mâh
Fr.: exosphère lunaire  

An extremely thin gathering of gas surrounding the → Moon. It is made up of → atoms and → ions generated at the Moon’s surface by interaction with → solar radiation, → plasma in the Earth’s → magnetosphere, or → micrometeorites.

See also: → lunar; → exosphere.