Astronauts deployed a solar wind measuring experiment on the Moon because

A) the lunar surface is protected by an atmosphere.
B) there is no electromagnetic energy arriving there.
C) the solar wind does not reach the Earth's surface.
D) no one else had attempted the experiment before and they wanted to be the first.


C

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