Monitoring lunar radiation environment: RADOM instrument on Chandrayaan-1

Current Science

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 544-546

  Dachev, T ^a   Tomov, B ^a   Dimitrov, P ^a   Matviichuk, Y ^a  

^a SOLAR TERRESTRIAL INFLUENCES LABORATORY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Galactic cosmic rays; Radiation environment; RADOM instrument; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650298941     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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