Apollo Moon Soil Radiation Experiment

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When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens into the Moon’s surface at nearly 280 miles per second (450 kilometers per second), it enriches it in ingredients that could make water. Planetary scientists Jason McLain and William Farrell use an ion gun at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to shoot simulated solar wind at Moon soil collected by astronauts during the Apollo program. They are testing how this process works at the Moon and the chemical signatures it leaves behind. Music Credits: "Gateway Identified" from Universal Production Music. James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Lead Videographer Lead Video Editor Lonnie Shekhtman (ADNET): Producer Writer Jason McLain (University of Maryland, College Park): Scientist William Farrell (NASA/GSFC): Scientist Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13315 Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/James Tralie If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

Published 2019-09-17 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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