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Elsevier, Planetary and Space Science, (115), p. 57-63, 2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2015.02.007

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Imaging the South Pole - Aitken Basin in Backscattered Neutral Hydrogen Atoms

Journal article published in 2015 by A. Vorburger, P. Wurz, S. Barabash, M. Wieser, Y. Futaana ORCID, A. Bhardwaj ORCID, K. Asamura
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Abstract

The lunar surface is very efficient in reflecting impinging solar wind ions as energetic neutral atoms (ENAs). A global analysis of lunar hydrogen ENAs showed that on average 16% of the solar wind protons are reflected, and that the reflected fraction can range from less than 8% to more than 24%, depending on location. It is established that magnetic anomalies reduce the flux of backscattered hydrogen ENAs by screening-off a fraction of the impinging solar wind. The effects of the surface properties, such as porosity, roughness, chemical composition, and extent of weathering, were not known.