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/s11214-014-0118-7

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)
Pages (from-to)	93-113
Number of pages	21
Journal	Space Science Reviews
Volume	185
Issue number	1-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-014-0118-7
State	Published - Dec 12 2014
Externally published	Yes

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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. (2014). The Lunar Dust Experiment (LDEX) Onboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Mission. Space Science Reviews, 185(1-4), 93-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-014-0118-7

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