Lunar radiation environment and space weathering from the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Schwadron, N A ^a   Baker, T ^a   Blake, B ^b   Case, A W ^c   Cooper, J F ^d   Golightly, M ^a   Jordan, A ^a   Joyce, C ^a   Kasper, J ^c   Kozarev, K ^c,e   Mislinski, J ^a   Mazur, J ^b   Posner, A ^f   Rother, O ^g,h   Smith, S ^a   Spence, H E ^a   Townsend, L W ⁱ   Wilson, J ^a   Zeitlin, C ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e Boston University   (United States)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^g Scientific Data Processing   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

ⁱ University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^j SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSMIC RAY; LUNAR CRUST; MOON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; WEATHERING;

EID: 84863337561     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JE003978     Document Type: Article

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