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Seungsoo Park, Taeil Chung, Jihyun Kim, Byunghyun Ryu and Hyusoung Shin
Charging of the lunar surface induced by solar radiation can potentially threaten in situ resource utilization. Associated issues include dust adhesion and material degradation. Photoelectric currents are the primary cause of surface charging. This work ...
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Naser T. Burahmah and Lawrence H. Heilbronn
As humanity prepares for extended lunar exploration, understanding the radiation environment on the Moon is important for astronaut safety. This study utilized the Particle and Heavy-Ion Transport code System (PHITS), a stochastic Monte Carlo-based radia...
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Reza Hedayati and Victoria Stulova
Heavily resource-reliant transportation and harsh living conditions, where humans cannot survive without a proper habitat, have prevented humans from establishing colonies on the Moon and Mars. Due to the absence of an atmosphere, potential habitats on t...
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Girolamo Costanza, Giovanni Ottavio Delle Monache, Maria Elisa Tata and Stefano Filosi
The next generation lunar reflector (NGLR) experiment is one of the experiments selected by NASA in the framework of the commercial lunar payload services (CLPS) initiative. The experiment, inspired by the lunar laser ranging (LLR) experiments of the Apo...
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Fahad A. Zaman, Lawrence W. Townsend, Wouter C. de Wet and Naser T. Burahmah
Understanding the radiation environment near the lunar surface is a key step towards planning for future missions to the Moon. However, the complex variety of energies and particle types constituting the space radiation environment makes the process of r...
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Fahad A. Zaman and Lawrence W. Townsend
Solar particle events (SPEs) can pose serious threats for future crewed missions to the Moon. Historically, there have been several extreme SPEs that could have been dangerous for astronauts, and thus analyzing their potential risk on humans is an import...
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