In late 2008, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission is launched into orbit around Earth's moon. The LRO mission conducts exploration-enabling observations. One of the objectives of this mission is to characterize the lunar radiation environment and its biological impacts on humans. For this purpose a collaboration involving research personnel from Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Tennessee, The Aerospace Corporation, Air Force Research Laboratory, and the NOAA Space Environment Center successfully proposed to develop a sensor system called the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER). CRaTER directly measures linear energy transfer (LET) spectra, thereby providing a direct link between the ambient environment and its biological impact on future human missions to the Moon. In this presentation an overview of the CRaTER team and project organization is presented and the current version of the proposed CRaTER instrument is described. Preliminary computational predictions of some components of the LET spectra are presented.


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    Title :

    Characterization of the lunar radiation environment using the CRaTER detector


    Contributors:
    Townsend, L.W. (author) / Moussa, H.M. (author) / Charara, Y. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2006-01-01


    Size :

    537485 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English