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Investigating the effect of surface - exosphere interactions

Johnson, R. E.; Chaufray, J. -Y.; Leblanc, F. +3 more

The surface of planetary airless bodies, also called surface bounded exosphere, like our Moon or Mercury, are directly bombarded by solar particles. The most abundant of those particles are solar wind protons. In the case of the Moon, many observations of low energy neutral atoms have shown that a significant portion of these incident protons are …