The Lunar X-ray Observatory (LXO) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 7
About This Presentation
Title:

The Lunar X-ray Observatory (LXO)

Description:

The Lunar Xray Observatory LXO – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:18
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 8
Provided by: michaelr48
Category:
Tags: lxo | kep | kop | lunar | observatory | ray

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: The Lunar X-ray Observatory (LXO)


1
The Lunar X-ray Observatory (LXO)
Michael R. Collier H. Kent Hills Kip Kuntz F.
Scott Porter Steve Snowden Tim Stubbs On Base at
NASA/GSFC Tom Cravens Ina Robertson University
of Kansas Steve Sembay University of
Leicester Pavel Travnicek Academy of Sciences of
the Czech Republic
1 of 7
2
X-ray Emission from Comets
2 of 7
3
Seeing the Solar Wind in Soft X-rays
The effect of the solar wind on the Earths
magnetosphere creates space weather.
The ROSAT All-Sky Survey soft X-ray flux is
strongly correlated with the solar wind flux
Cravens, Robertson and Snowden, JGR, 106, 24,883,
2001
3 of 7
4
XMM Observations of Solar Wind Lines
Snowden, Collier and Kuntz, Astrophys. J., 610
(2), 1182, 2004 Collier, Moore, Snowden and
Kuntz, Adv. Space Res., 35 (12), 2157, 2005
4 of 7
5
Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction
Robertson, Collier, Cravens and Fok, J. Geophys.
Res., 111, A12105, 2006.
5 of 7
6
Solar Wind Interaction with the Moons Atmosphere
6 of 7
7
Science and Exploration Application
ALSEP on lunar surface
One possible LXO concept
7 of 7
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com