Nanoswarm: a Cubesat Discovery Mission to Study Space Weathering, Lunar
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MAGNETISM, LUNAR WATER, AND SMALL-SCALE MAGNETOSPHERES. I. Garrick-Bethell, C. M. Pieters, C. T. Russell, B. P. Weiss, J. Halekas, D. Larson, A. R. Poppe, D. J. Lawrence, R. C. Elphic, P. O. Hayne, R. J. Blakely, K.-H. Kim, Y.-J. Choi, H. Jin, D. Hemingway, M. Nayak, J. Puig-Suari, B. Jaroux, S. Warwick. University of California, Santa Cruz, [email protected], Kyung Hee U., Brown U., UCLA, MIT, U. of Iowa, UC Berkeley, APL, Ames, JPL, USGS, KASI (South Korea), Tyvak, Northrop Grumman.
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