Showing posts with label IBEX Detects Fast Neutral Hydrogen from the Moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IBEX Detects Fast Neutral Hydrogen from the Moon. Show all posts

Thursday, June 18, 2009

IBEX Detects Fast Neutral Hydrogen from the Moon

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the Moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.During spacecraft commissioning, the IBEX team turned on the IBEX-Hi instrument, built primarily by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which measures