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28 November, 19:34

What prevented the Moon from maintaining any atmosphere with which it originally formed

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    A lack of sufficient gravity. The gravity on the moon is so weak that the rays of the sun (the solar wind) completely blew away any atmosphere the moon may have had. The rest of the lunar atmosphere evaporated into space due to the high heat from the direct sunlight.
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