A new view on the solar wind interaction with the Moon

Anil Bhardwaj1, M. B. Dhanya1, Abhinaw Alok1, S. Barabash2, Martin Wieser2, Yoshifumi Futaana2, Peter Würz3, Audrey Vorburger4, Mats Holmström, Charles Lue2, Yuki Harada5, Kazushi Asamura6
1Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, India
2Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
3Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
4Division of Physical Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
5Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
6Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan

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