Lunar Solar Occultation Explorer (LunaSOX)
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In the present decade and beyond, now 51 years after last Apollo landing, NASA Artemis human exploration program will offer abundant opportunities for heliophysics investigations from, by, of Moon from vantage points lunar orbit surface. The Lunar Solar Occultation Explorer (LunaSOX) concept uses limb to occult solar disk high-resolution coronal observations at hourly, daily, biweekly cadences spacecraft either in or A 0.2 m diameter telescope with white light narrow-band visible filters would provide arcsecond spectroscopic imaging low-to-high corona (1–10 R☉) an upper limit 10 –12 B☉ on local scattered background atmospheric dust, as compared –9 Earth ground-based eclipse looking up through atmosphere totality. For by Moon, there be no significant disturbances that otherwise seeing arcsec resolution Earth’s eccentric orbits ARTEMIS P1 P2 are used models a 1 × Rm LunaSOX compute times intervals, 2 hours duration between east west hemispheres daily cadence 1–16 R☉ when orbital aposelene is anti-sunward directions. low-altitude circular surface, observational would, respectively, hourly biweekly. satellites also carrying situ space environment instruments could integrate into network platforms weather monitoring communications relay far-side surface lander permanent base sites, e.g., low-frequency radio cosmology detection exoplanet magnetospheres.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2296-987X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2023.1163517