Scientific package that flew on Apollo 12 and Apollo 15
Solar Wind Spectrometer
The Apollo 15 Solar Wind Spectrometer experiment on the Moon
Acronym
SWS
Notable experiments
Apollo 12 and Apollo 15
The Solar Wind Spectrometer was a scientific package that flew on the Apollo 12 and Apollo 15 missions to the surface of the Moon.[1][2][3] The goal was to characterise the solar wind near the Moon's surface and to explore its interactions with the lunar environment. The experiments' principal investigator was Dr Conway W. Snyder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
^Snyder, C. W.; Neugebauer, M.; Clay, D. R.; Goldstein, B. E. (1972-01-01). "Observations with the Solar Wind Spectrometers of Apollo-12 and Apollo-15 ALSEPs". Abstracts of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Vol. 3. Lunar and Planetary Science Institute. p. 714. Bibcode:1972LPI.....3..714S.
The SolarWindSpectrometer was a scientific package that flew on the Apollo 12 and Apollo 15 missions to the surface of the Moon. The goal was to characterise...
The solarwind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona. This plasma mostly consists of electrons...
the solarwind streams. UltraViolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS), which measures density and temperature in the corona. Variability of solar IRradiance...
Earth's magnetosphere caused by a solarwind shock wave. The disturbance that drives the magnetic storm may be a solar coronal mass ejection (CME) or (much...
wind or plasma fountain is a permanent outflow of plasma from the polar regions of Earth's magnetosphere, caused by the interaction between the solar...
(NASA) contribution. Solar Orbiter, designed to obtain detailed measurements of the inner heliosphere and the nascent solarwind, will also perform close...
the particles in the solarwind are electrons and protons, in approximately equal numbers. Because the SolarWindSpectrometer made continuous measurements...
The goal of SIDE was to study any potential lunar ionosphere and the solarwind. The idea of landing a positive ion detector on the Moon was first proposed...
spectrometer to measure scattered and emitted UV light a neutral mass spectrometer to determine the composition of the upper atmosphere a solarwind plasma...
base of both northern and southern cusps of the magnetosphere where the solarwind can implant hydrogen in surface material. Principal investigator: William...
equipped with a gamma-ray spectrometer, UV grating monochromator, electron and proton spectrometers, gamma-ray burst detectors, solarwind plasma detectors, and...
equipped with a gamma-ray spectrometer, UV grating monochromator, electron and proton spectrometers, gamma-ray burst detectors, solarwind plasma detectors, and...
the influence of the solarwind, as did Voyager 1 in 2012. Although the Voyagers have moved beyond the influence of the solarwind, they still have a long...
Sonett; Marshall Space Flight Center, Jerry Modisette. Medium-Energy SolarWind: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, C. W. Snyder and M. M. Neugebauer. Suprathermal...
zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solarwind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetosphere...
with the varying conditions within the Solar System and its heliosphere. This includes the effects of the solarwind, especially on the Earth's magnetosphere...
BDRP-AM25 soil X-ray fluorescence spectrometer GS-15-STsV gamma ray spectrometer PrOP-V penetrometer MSB small solar batteries The two balloon aerobots...
on the mass spectrometer and incoherent scatter data: MSIS-83 J. Geophys. Res., 88, 10170, 1983 Willson, R.C., Measurements of the solar total irradiance...
analogy to solar sailing may be a sailing boat; the light exerting a force on the large surface is akin to a sail being blown by the wind. High-energy...
implanted by solarwind. The Alpha Particle Spectrometer (APS) was a cube approximately 18 cm (7.1 in) colocated with the neutron spectrometer on the end...
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