A program of data synthesis from the ALSEP/CPLEE ALSEP/SIDE, and Explorer 35 magnetometer to investigate lunar terminator and nightside particle fluxes and surface interactions

Details A program of data synthesis from the ALSEP/CPLEE ALSEP/SIDE, and Explorer 35 magnetometer to investigate lunar terminator and nightside particle fluxes and surface interactions A program of data synthesis from the ALSEP/CPLEE ALSEP/SIDE, and Explorer 35 magnetometer to investigate lunar terminator and nightside particle fluxes and surface interactions

Feb 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976ruht.rept.....r&link_type=abstract

Final Technical Report Rice Univ., Houston, TX. Dept. of Space Physics and Astronomy.

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Space Physics

Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, Electrons, Explorer 35 Satellite, Lunar Radiation, Electric Potential, Flux (Rate), Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Fields, Magnetometers, Photoelectric Effect, Solar Wind, Spectrometers

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Lunar nightside electron fluxes were studied with the aid of the ALSEP/CPLEE and other instruments. The flux events were shown to be due to (a) electrons propagating upstream from the earth's bow shock, (b) electrons thermalized and scattered to the lunar surface by disturbances along the boundary of the lunar solar-wind cavity, and (c) solar wind electrons scattered to the lunar surface by lunar limb shocks and/or compressional disturbances. These electrons were identified as a cause of the high night surface negative potentials observed in tha ALSEP/SIDE ion data. A study was also made of the shadowing of magnetotail plasma sheet electrons by interactions between the lunar body and the ambient magnetic field and by interactions between charged particles and lunar remnant magnetic fields. These shadowing effects were shown to modify lunar surface and near-lunar potential distributions.

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