Moon based global field airglow: For Artemis or any common Lunar Lander

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Jun 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994adspr..14..177k&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, vol. 14, no. 6, p. (6)177-(6)180

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Abundance, Airglow, Lunar Atmosphere, Lunar Bases, Spectrographs, Chemical Composition, Emission Spectra, Lunar Landing, Moon, Airglow, Artemis Mission, Landers, Experiments, Mission Planning, Design, Equipment, Outgassing, Interior, Surface, Dust, Atmosphere, Flux, Solar Wind, Sputtering, Science Aspects, Mbgfa Instrument, Description

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An inexpensive, small mass, airglow experiment consisting of a suite of airglow detectors is planned for one or more lunar landers. Solid state detectors measuring light through narrow band filters or concave gratings can integrate emissions from lunar atmospheric constituents and store the information for relay to earth when convenient. The proposed instrument is a simplified version of the Shuttle-borne Arizona Imager-Spectrograph. These zenith and near horizon viewing detectors may allow us to monitor fluctuations in atomic species of oxygen, calcium, sodium, potassium, argon, and neon and OH, if present. This choice of observations would monitor outgassing from the interior (Ar), meteoritic dust flux (Na, K) solar wind sputtering (O, Ca), and outgassing from the surface (implanted Ne, Na, K). A global network could be inexpensively deployed aboard landers carrying a variety of other selenographic instrumentation. Powered by solar cells such a field network will return data applicable to a wide variety of interplanetary medium and solar-lunar interaction problems.

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