Establishment of a Lunar Unipolar Generator and Associated Shock and Wake by the Solar Wind

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Oct 1967

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Nature, Volume 216, Issue 5113, pp. 340-343 (1967).

Physics

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The impact of the solar wind on a dynamo- and atmosphere-free body such as the Moon generates two distinguishable current systems denoted as Cowling (Ḃ ≠ 0) and unipolar (Ḃ = 0). The unipolar system representing the steady state must close through the neighbouring plasma and thus has the form of a simple linear unipolar generator. The relationship of the current to the conductivity of the body is investigated for the homogeneous and the radially inhomogeneous Moon. The current density is determined by the power flow in the solar wind and the conductivity of the body. The fundamental equation for the interior potential associated with the unipolar generator is solved for a special case.

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