I'd bet on the former.
How many millibars of atmosphere does the moon actually have? It's generally referred to as 'airless', but any body as large as the moon will have some trace atmosphere due to gravity.
The lunar exosphere is 1/trillionth of an atmosphere. Apollo 17 measured helium on the lunar surface, but LAMP can measure helium density as a function of altitude, since it makes the measurement from lunar orbit.
MD, LAMP Instrument Scientist