Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986aiaa.meetq....h&link_type=abstract
AIAA, Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 24th, Reno, NV, Jan. 6-9, 1986. 7 p. DOE-sponsored research.
Physics
Lunar Bases, Plasma Diagnostics, Research Projects, Space Plasmas, Earth-Moon System, Geomagnetic Tail, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Lunar Surface, Magnetosheath, Magnetospheric Instability
Scientific paper
The lunar environment is a natural laboratory for studying plasma phenomena which cannot be duplicated in terrestrial or near-earth locations, mainly due to the rarefaction of atomic nuclei near the moon. Plasma analyzers, particle detectors and magnetometers have been carried by Apollo spacecraft to study space plasmas during lunar orbits. Explorer 35 solar wind measurements helped characterize the earth's magnetosheath. The lunar remanent magnetic fields have been mapped by PFS 1 and 2 spacecraft by the detection of upward directed electrons around the moon. Features of plasmoids which drift downwind from the earth after breaking of magnetic field lines during substorm events have been studied in terms of plasma data gathered on the moon. The erection of an array of particle detectors and magnetometers on the moon to further study the plasmoids is recommended, as is the establishment of a manned lunar laboratory for studying space plasmas. Finally, an experiment is proposed which consists of seeding a plasmoid with Ca II ions at a time when a telescope on the moon can view the downstream progress of the plasmoid.
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