Mystery Flashes on the Moon Are Real!(Brief Article)

Odyssey | March 1, 2000 | Copyright

For more than a century, people looking through telescopes have reported seeing curious colored clouds and flickering flashes on the Moon. These fleeting apparitions, called "lunar transient phenomena" (LTP), have eluded explanation. In fact, until recently, few astronomers believed in LTPs. They attributed them to earthly atmospheric effects and even figments of the imagination, such as ghosts and UFOs.

Now, space scientists say that these mysterious clouds appear to be real! The story actually goes back to April 23, 1994, when about a hundred amateur astronomers ...

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