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First Observation of Transport of Solar Wind Protons Scattered From Magnetic Anomalies Into the Near Lunar Wake: Observations by SARA/Chandrayaan-1

Barabash, Stas; Holmström, Mats; Futaana, Yoshifumi +5 more

We report the first observational evidence for the transport of the solar wind protons scattered from the lunar magnetic anomaly (LMA) into the near wake region from SWIM/Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyzer (SARA) aboard Chandrayaan-1. These protons with high angular spread are observed in the near wake region for specific orientations of interplanet…