CRaTER: The cosmic ray telescope for the effects of radiation experiment on the lunar reconnaissance orbiter mission

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 150, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 243-284

  Spence, H E ^a   Case, A W ^a   Golightly, M J ^a   Heine, T ^a   Larsen, B A ^a   Blake, J B ^b   Caranza, P ^b   Crain, W R ^b   George, J ^b   Lalic, M ^b   Lin, A ^b   Looper, M D ^b   Mazur, J E ^b   Salvaggio, D ^b   Kasper, J C ^c   Stubbs, T J ^d   Doucette, M ^e   Ford, P ^e   Foster, R ^e   Goeke, R ^e   Gordon, D ^e   Klatt, B ^e   O'Connor, J ^e   Smith, M ^e   Onsager, T ^f   Zeitlin, C ^g   Townsend, L W ^h   Charara, Y ^h   more..

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Galactic cosmic rays; LET spectrum; LRO; Lunar science; Radiation effects; Solar energetic protons

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF IONIZING RADIATIONS; COSMIC RAY TELESCOPES; CRATER MEASUREMENTS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEEP SPACE; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS; HUMAN EXPLORATION; HUMAN TISSUES; IONIZING ENERGY LOSS; LET SPECTRA; LET SPECTRUM; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; LUNAR SURFACE; RADIATION ENVIRONMENTS; RADIATION EXPERIMENT; RADIATION TRANSPORT; SOLAR ENERGETIC PROTON; SOLID STATE DETECTORS; SPACE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SYNTHETIC ANALOGS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GALAXIES; INSTRUMENT TESTING; LIGHTING FIXTURES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PROTONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SILICON DETECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

EID: 77950188652     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-009-9584-8     Document Type: Article

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