  Characterised by a surface bound exosphere and localised crustal magnetic
fields, the Moon was considered as a passive object when solar wind interacts
with it. However, the neutral particle and plasma measurements around the Moon
by recent dedicated lunar missions, such as Chandrayaan-1, Kaguya, Chang'E-1,
LRO, and ARTEMIS, as well as IBEX have revealed a variety of phenomena around
the Moon which results from the interaction with solar wind, such as
backscattering of solar wind protons as energetic neutral atoms (ENA) from
lunar surface, sputtering of atoms from the lunar surface, formation of a
"mini-magnetosphere" around lunar magnetic anomaly regions, as well as several
plasma populations around the Moon, including solar wind protons scattered from
the lunar surface, from the magnetic anomalies, pick-up ions, protons in lunar
wake and more. This paper provides a review of these recent findings and
presents the interaction of solar wind with the Moon in a new perspective.
