GCR access to the Moon as measured by the CRaTER instrument on LRO

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Case, A W ^a   Spence, H E ^a,b   Golightly, M J ^b   Kasper, J C ^c   Blake, J B ^d   Mazur, J E ^d   Townsend, L W ^e   Zeitlin, C J ^f  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^e University of Tennessee   (United States)

^f SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; MAGNETOSPHERE; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION PROTECTION; SOLAR WIND;

CORONAL MASS EJECTION; COSMIC RAY TELESCOPES; COUNTING STATISTICS; EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE; EARTH'S MAGNETOTAIL; ENERGETIC PARTICLE FLUX; ENERGETIC PARTICLES; GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS; HIGH ENERGY; IN-ORBIT; LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; MODELING RESULTS; SOLAR FLARE; UPPER LIMITS;

MOON;

COSMIC RAY; LUNAR CYCLE; MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOTAIL; MODEL TEST; MOON; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 77957706334     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045118     Document Type: Article

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