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Nov 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011p%26ss...59.1791w&link_type=abstract
Planetary and Space Science, Volume 59, Issue 14, p. 1791-1794.
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When the moon enters the plasma sheet of the earth, high energy electron fluxes are incident upon the lunar surface. Some regions are in the shadow of these fluxes due to topographic features. Large electric fields were found at similar shadow boundaries created by the electron beams incident upon an obstacle in the laboratory. Potentials on the beam-illuminated surface follow beam energies and were negative relative to potentials on the shadowed surface. Charged dust particles in the beam-illuminated region were observed to move into the shadow due to these electric fields. The oblique incidence of the electron fluxes upon craters can lead to a portion of the crater surface in the beam-illumination and another portion in the shadow. Dust particles on the slopes of the craters can thus experience large electric fields and transport downhill to fill the bottom of the craters. This mechanism may contribute to the formation of dust ponds observed by the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft at Eros, and might be at work on the lunar surface as well. In the laboratory, we used electron fluxes with energies up to 90 eV to bombard an insulating half-pipe. An angle of incidence was chosen so that the impact occurred on farside of the slope and left the bottom and the nearside slope in the shadow. Dust particles on the beam-illuminated slope moved down along the surface toward the bottom of the half-pipe and hopped to the bottom as well, while particles on the shadowed slope remained at rest.
Horanyi Mihaly
Robertson Scott
Wang Xinhua
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