APOLLO-11 SOLAR WIND COMPOSITION EXPERIMENT - FIRST RESULTS

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作者
BUHLER, F
EBERHARD.P
GEISS, J
MEISTER, J
SIGNER, P
机构
[1] Physikalisches Institut, University of Berne
[2] Institute of Crystallography and Petrography, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
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10.1126/science.166.3912.1502
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The helium-4 solar wind flux during the Apollo 11 lunar surface excursion was (6.3 ± 1.2) x 106 atoms per square centimeter per second. The solar wind direction and energy are essentially not perturbed by the moon. Evidence for a lunar solar wind albedo was found.
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