FINAL REPORT Lunar Particle Shadows and Boundary Layer Experiment:Plasma and Energetic Particles on the Apollo 15 and 16 Subsatellites

摘要

This report describes the lunar particle shadows and boundary layer experiments aboard the Apollo 15 and 16 subsatellites, and summarizes the scientific reduction and analysis of the data to date. The analysis has con¬centrated on fort main areas:solar particles, interplanetary particle phenomena, lunar interactions, and topology and dynamics of the magneto-sphere at lunar orbit.nThe studies of solar and interplanetary particles have concentrated on the low energy region which has been essentially unexplored.nThe studies of lunar interaction have pointed up the transition from single particle to plasma characteristics. Very recently the analysis has concentrated on the electron angular distributions as highly sensitive indicators of localized magnetization of the lunar surface.