The lunar dust experiment (LDEX) onboard the lunar atmosphere and dust environment explorer (LADEE) mission

M. Horányi; Z. Sternovsky; M. Lankton; C. Dumont; S. Gagnard; D. Gathright; E. Grün; D. Hansen; D. James; S. Kempf; B. Lamprecht; R. Srama; J. R. Szalay; G. Wright

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18717-4_5

The lunar dust experiment (LDEX) onboard the lunar atmosphere and dust environment explorer (LADEE) mission

M. Horányi, Z. Sternovsky, M. Lankton, C. Dumont, S. Gagnard, D. Gathright, E. Grün, D. Hansen, D. James, S. Kempf, B. Lamprecht, R. Srama, J. R. Szalay, G. Wright

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Abstract

The Lunar Dust Experiment (LDEX) is an in situ dust detector onboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission. It is designed to characterize the variability of the dust in the lunar exosphere by mapping the size and spatial distributions of dust grains in the lunar environment as a function of local time and the position of the Moon with respect to the magnetosphere of the Earth. LDEX gauged the relative contributions of the two competing dust sources: (a) ejecta production due to the continual bombardment of the Moon by interplanetary micrometeoroids, and (b) lofting of small grains from the lunar surface due to plasma-induced near-surface electric fields.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer Mission (LADEE)
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	93-114
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319187174
ISBN (Print)	9783319187167
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18717-4_5
State	Published - Jan 1 2015
Externally published	Yes

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General Physics and Astronomy
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

Keywords

Dust
Exosphere
Instrumentation
Ladee mission
Lunar

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Horányi, M., Sternovsky, Z., Lankton, M., Dumont, C., Gagnard, S., Gathright, D., Grün, E., Hansen, D., James, D., Kempf, S., Lamprecht, B., Srama, R., Szalay, J. R., & Wright, G. (2015). The lunar dust experiment (LDEX) onboard the lunar atmosphere and dust environment explorer (LADEE) mission. In The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer Mission (LADEE) (pp. 93-114). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18717-4_5

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