The Neutral Mass Spectrometer on the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer Mission

P R Mahaffy ,Therese Errigo,Daniel Carigan,Felix Noreiga,Steven Battel,James Kellogg,Curt Cooper,Edwin Weidner,Patrick Kimvilakani,Robert Arvey,Jerome Hengemihle,Marvin Noriega,Michael Barciniak,Ryan Miller,Charles Edmonson,Cynthia Gundersen,Ken Arnett,Todd King,Benito Prats,Matthew Lefavor,Vincent Holmes,John Maurer,Mirl Bendt,Omar Quinones,Eric Lyness,Kiran Patel,Florence Tan,Michael S Woronowicz ,F Jaeger ,Daniel Harpold ,Christopher Johnson ,Thomas Nolan ,Bruce Block ,E Raaen ,R R Hodges ,M Benna ,Daniel H Nguyen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18717-4_3

The Neutral Mass Spectrometer on the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer Mission

P R Mahaffy , Therese Errigo + Show 35 more

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18717-4_3

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Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015

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Affiliation: Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

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The Neutral Mass Spectrometer (NMS) of the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Mission is designed to measure the composition and variability of the tenuous lunar atmosphere. The NMS complements two other instruments on the LADEE spacecraft designed to secure spectroscopic measurements of lunar composition and in situ measurement of lunar dust over the course of a 100-day mission in order to sample multiple lunation periods. The NMS utilizes a dual ion source designed to measure both surface reactive and inert species and a quadrupole analyzer. The NMS is expected to secure time resolved measurements of helium and argon and determine abundance or upper limits for many other species either sputtered or thermally evolved from the lunar surface.

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