A glowing, purple ribbon of light named STEVE is weirder than we thought and we now have evidence that there is water ice on the moon!
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Sources:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/bright-purple-ribbon-named-steve-entirely-new-celestial-phenomenon
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/there-s-new-aurora-subpolar-skies-its-name-steve
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2018GL078509
http://blog.aurorasaurus.org/?p=449
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/3/eaaq0030
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/science/aurora-borealis-steve.html
http://aurorasaurus.org/learn#aurora-colors
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/ice-confirmed-at-the-moon-s-poles
https://www.isro.gov.in/Spacecraft/chandrayaan-1
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/08/14/1802345115
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/27/17287154/nasa-lunar-surface-robotic-mission-resource-prospector-moon
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/moon-mineralogy-mapper-m3/
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1178658
https://www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-4351(17)30224-6.pdf
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/26938621338/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12865
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Optical_Steve.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CY1_2007_(cropped).jpg
https://images.nasa.gov/details-GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/ice-confirmed-at-the-moon-s-poles
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