Lunar Grounding Challenge

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by NASA / ESA / JAXA at 06 Oct, 18:22 UTC

As an astronaut traverses the lunar South Pole, tribocharging from walking on the lunar surface and plasma charging from the ambient plasma generate electric charge on the spacesuit. This problem is severely compounded when entering lunar shadows and Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs). In these…

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• T1Lunar Grounding ChallengeNASA / ESA / JAXA06 Oct, 18:22