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Sensor System to Gauge Effects of Cosmic Rays on Lunar Explorers

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BOSTON, Feb. 11 -- Boston University Professor Harlan Spence recently joined five other space scientists at Goddard Space Center, in Greenbelt, Md., to discuss their participation in NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) program. Spence learned in late December that his proposal for CRaTER, an instrument that will measure and characterize the potential biological effects of cosmic radiation on humans, was one of six selected by the space agency for the LRO mission scheduled for fall 2008. A professor in Boston University's Center for Space Physics and a professor in and chairman of the...Read full article

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    Published: February 2005
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    astronomy
    The scientific observation of celestial radiation that has reached the vicinity of Earth, and the interpretation of these observations to determine the characteristics of the extraterrestrial bodies and phenomena that have emitted the radiation.
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