CRaTER: The Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation Experiment on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission

The Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) characterizes the radiation environment to be experienced by humans during future lunar missions. CRaTER measures the effects of ionizing energy loss in matter due to penetrating solar energetic...

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Main Authors: Spence, H. E. (Author), Case, A. W. (Author), Golightly, M. J. (Author), Heine, T. (Author), Larsen, B. A. (Author), Blake, J. B. (Author), Caranza, P. (Author), Crain, W. R. (Author), George, J. (Author), Lalic, M. (Author), Lin, A. (Author), Looper, M. D. (Author), Mazur, J. E. (Author), Salvaggio, D. (Author), Kasper, J. C. (Author), Stubbs, T. J. (Author), Doucette, M. (Contributor), Ford, Peter Gerald (Contributor), Foster, Richard F. (Contributor), Goeke, Robert F. (Contributor), Gordon, Dorothy (Contributor), Klatt, Brian W. (Contributor), O'Connor, J. (Contributor), Smith, M. (Contributor), Onsager, T. (Author), Zeitlin, C. (Author), Townsend, L. W. (Author), Charara, Y. (Author)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands, 2011-09-19T16:16:15Z.
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