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A new view on the solar wind interaction with the Moon

Barabash, Stas; Holmström, Mats; Futaana, Yoshifumi +9 more

Characterised by a surface bound exosphere and localised crustal magnetic fields, the Moon was considered as a passive object when solar wind interacts with it. However, the neutral particle and plasma measurements around the Moon by recent dedicated lunar missions, such as Chandrayaan-1, Kaguya, Chang'E-1, LRO, and ARTEMIS, as well as IBEX have r…

Active moon: evidences from Chandrayaan-1 and the proposed Indian missions

Srivastava, Neeraj; Bhandari, Narendra

Chandrayaan-1, the polar Lunar orbiter mission of Indian Space Research Organization, successfully carried out study of Moon's environment and surface processes for a period of about nine months during 2008–2009. The results obtained by the mission established (i) A tenuous but active hydrosphere (ii) Volcanically active and geologically dynamic M…