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Solar Wind Monitoring with SWIM-SARA Onboard Chandrayaan-1

Barabash, S.; Lundin, R.; Futaana, Y. +19 more

The SARA experiment aboard the Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 consists of two instruments: Chandrayaan-1 Energetic Neutral Analyzer (CENA) and the SolarWind Monitor (SWIM). CENA will provide measurements of low energy neutral atoms sputtered from lunar surface in the 0.01-3.3 keV energy range by the impact of solar wind ions. SWIM will monitor…