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Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufm.p51c1461a&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #P51C-1461
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[2499] Ionosphere / General Or Miscellaneous, [6250] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Moon
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In the SELENE mission, electron density near the lunar surface was measured with radio occultation technique in two configurations. One is the conventional single-spacecraft method and the other is a new method using two sub-satellites at the same time. The latter method provided electron densities with smaller contaminations by the terrestrial ionosphere, although the observed points are limited to the region near the terminator. The result suggests that the lunar ionosphere dose not exist most of the time near the terminator in contrast to the measurements by Luna 19 and 22 of the former Soviet Union. Two exceptional cases, out of 20 observations in total, occur on the sunlit side, where enhancements of the electron column density were observed below ~30 km altitude on the lunar surface. Possible sources of electrons near the lunar surface would be lunar dusts or water molecules.
"Selene Radio Science Team"
Ando Hiroki
Futaana Yoshifumi
Hanada Hideo
Imamura Takashi
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