ASTRONAUGHTY

The Moon has no magnetic field. Which makes it wonderfully scenic and completely unprotected.

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The Moon lacks a strong global magnetic dynamo today, unlike Earth. Some lunar rocks are locally magnetized, suggesting it may have had a stronger field billions of years ago.

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