Lro/crater Discoveries of the Lunar Radiation Environment and Lunar Regolith Alteration by Radiation
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REGOLITH ALTERATION BY RADIATION N. A. Schwadron, H. E. Spence, J. K. Wilson, A. P. Jordan, R. Winslow, C. Joyce, M. D. Looper, A. W. Case, N. E. Petro, M. S. Robinson, T. J. Stubbs, C. Zeitlin, J. B. Blake, J. Kasper, J. E. Mazur, S. S. Smith, L. W. Townsend, Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH ([email protected]), The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, High Energy Astrophysics Division, Harvard CFA, Cambridge, MA, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Southwest Research Institute, Durham, NH, AOSS, College of Engineering, Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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