Physics of Solar Wind and Terrestrial Magnetospheric Plasma Interactions With the Moon

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufmsm52a..01l&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #SM52A-01

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Plasma Physics

2744 Magnetotail, 2784 Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, 5440 Magnetic Fields And Magnetism, 6250 Moon (1221), 7827 Kinetic And Mhd Theory

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The interaction of the Moon with the cis-lunar plasma produces a variety of phenomena: surface charging up to kilovolts with likely effects on dust; sputtering and aging of lunar surfaces; the generation of electron beams and limb shocks; the reflection of electrons by lunar surface magnetic fields; the formation of mini- magnetospheres both larger and smaller than typical ion gyrodiameters; the generation of magnetic reconnection-like ion/electron diffusion regions; the shadowing of fast electrons that allow tracing of the topology and measureing the convection velocities of magnetotail and solar wind magnetic field lines, etc. Some of these phenomena are important to understand for human exploration of the Moon, while others provide insight into fundamental plasma physics, or into the large scale dynamics of the solar wind interaction that forms the Earth's magnetotail, or the properties of the Moon itself. Thus, a very wide variety of heliophysics science may be enabled by the return to the Moon. In this talk I will discuss several of these phenomena and the possible ways to study these phenomena through robotic and human exploration.

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