ABSTRACT The sunlight reflected from the Moon during a total lunar eclipse has been transmitted through Earth’s atmosphere on way to Moon. combination of multiple scattering and inhomogeneous atmospheric characteristics that transmission can potentially polarize light. A similar (although much smaller) effect should also be observable transiting exoplanet. We present results polarization observ...

This paper shows how the exposure of the Moon to the Earth’s plasmasheet is subject to decadal variations due to lunar precession. The latter is a key property of the Moon’s apparent orbit around the Earth – the nodes of that orbit precess around the ecliptic, completing one revolution every 18.6 years. This precession is responsible for a number of astronomical phenomena, e.g. the year to year...