Interaction between the Moon and the Earth's magnetosphere

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Oct 2011

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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.79

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Interaction between the Moon and the Earth's magnetosphere is investigated using the low energy ion and electron data observed around the Moon. We will report two examples of newly observed phenomena. One is the detection of ions originating from the Moon surface / exosphere. These ions were detected in the lobe region on the dayside of the Moon especially when the solar zenith angle was below 40deg. These ions often show characteristic variation of the flux and energy that presumably correlates with the lunar surface structure or composition. The other is different plasmoid / plasma sheet signatures observed on the dayside and the night-side of the Moon. On the night side of the Moon, ions accelerated by the spacecraft potential and the electrons accelerated by the potential difference between the lunar surface and the spacecraft were simultaneously observed. It enables us to determine the night side lunar surface potential and spacecraft potential only using the observed data.

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