Lunar electric fields, surface potential and associated plasma sheaths

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Sep 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975moon...14..103f&link_type=abstract

(Lunar Science Institute, Conference on Interactions of the Interplanetary Plasma with the Modern and Ancient Moon, Lake Geneva,

Physics

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Electric Fields, Electric Potential, Lunar Surface, Plasma Sheaths, Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, Electron Density (Concentration), Ion Density (Concentration), Ionosondes, Solar Wind

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A review is given of studies of the electric-field environment of the moon. Surface electric potentials are reported for the dayside and terminator regions, electron and ion densities in the plasma sheath adjacent to each surface-potential regime are evaluated, and the corresponding Debye lengths are estimated. The electric fields, which are approximated by the surface potential over the Debye length, are shown to be at least three orders of magnitude higher than the pervasive solar-wind electric field and to be confined to within a few tens of meters of the lunar surface.

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