First direct detection of ions originating from the Moon by MAP-PACE IMA onboard SELENE (KAGUYA)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Yokota, Shoichiro ^a   Saito, Yoshifumi ^a   Asamura, Kazushi ^a   Tanaka, Takaaki ^a   Nishino, Masaki N ^a   Tsunakawa, Hideo ^b   Shibuya, Hidetoshi ^c   Matsushima, Masaki ^d   Shimizu, Hisayoshi ^d   Takahashi, Futoshi ^b   Fujimoto, Masaki ^a   Mukai, Toshifumi ^a   Terasawa, Toshio ^b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT DETECTION; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; ION ENERGIES; LOSS MECHANISMS; LOW ENERGY IONS; LUNAR ORBIT; LUNAR ORBITER; LUNAR SURFACE; PLANETARY SURFACES; SURFACE COMPOSITIONS; THIN ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; HELIUM; LUNAR MISSIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR WIND; SPECTROMETRY;

IONS;

DETECTION METHOD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; ION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOON; PLANETARY SURFACE; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 68949124872     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038185     Document Type: Article

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