• DocumentCode
    17977
  • Title

    Measurement of Dust Charging on a Lunar Regolith Simulant Surface

  • Author

    Ning Ding ; Wang, Jiacheng ; Polansky, John

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Astronaut. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    41
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    3498
  • Lastpage
    3504
  • Abstract
    This paper presents experimental research to determine the charge of individual dust grains on a lunar regolith simulant surface immersed in plasma. The results show that, at similar surface charging potentials, both the charge and the charge-to-mass ratio of dust grains on a JSC-1A lunar regolith simulant surface is about two orders of magnitude smaller than that of a single, isolated dust particle.
  • Keywords
    astrophysical plasma; cosmic dust; lunar surface; JSC-1A lunar regolith simulant surface; dust charging measurement; dust particle; individual dust grains; lunar regolith simulant surface; Current measurement; Moon; Particle beams; Plasma measurements; Plasmas; Probes; Surface charging; Charging measurement; dust charging; lunar regolith simulant;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0093-3813
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPS.2013.2279170
  • Filename
    6605561
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=17977