NASA NTRS · 20150018894
Lunar Hydrospheric Explorer (HYDROX)
Abstract
The Lunar Hydrospheric Explorer (HYDROX) is a 6U CubeSat designed to further confirm the existence of lunar exospheric water, and to determine source processes and surface sites, through ion mass spectrometer measurements of water group (O+, OH+, H2O+) and related ions at energy charge up to 2 keV/e. and mass/charge 1-40amu/e. HYDROX would follow up on the now-concluded exospheric compositional measurements by the Neutral Mass Spectrometer on the NASA LADEE mission and on other remote sensing surface and exospheric measurements (LADEE,LRO, etc.).
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Cooper, J. F., Paschalidis, N., Sittler, E. C., Jr., Jones, S. L., Stubbs, T. J., Sarantos, M., Khurana, K. K., Angelopoulos, V., Jordan, A. P., Schwadron, N. A.. 2015-09-27. Lunar Hydrospheric Explorer (HYDROX). https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20150018894
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