Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufmsh13b..02z&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SH13B-02
Physics
1026 Composition Of The Moon, 2164 Solar Wind Plasma, 6250 Moon (1221), 7537 Solar And Stellar Variability (1650)
Scientific paper
The exploration of the lunar atmosphere and its relation to physical processes that dominate the interaction between the moon its space environment is enabled by the analysis of charged and neutrals from a near-lunar orbit. The Moon has an atmosphere, a collisionless exosphere in which material released from the surface is gravitationally bound. It is very tenuous and very fragile, very much affected and expected to be very much affected by the anticipated lunar exploration program. It is the purpose to this talk to outline the breakthrough science that can be done from a platform in a near-lunar orbit, detecting pickup ions from surface and atmospheric sources. We will discuss expected sources and sinks of these species. We will also focus on transient events from lunar quakes and from meteoritic impacts. Finally, we discuss a possible implementation of an instrument that could do these breakthrough measurements.
Baragiola Raul
Collier Mark
Delory Greg
Gloeckler George
Härtle Rainer
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