LEXI is Going to the Moon! (In 2023)

By dhahn ()

Boston University’s LEXI telescope is going to the moon! (But not until 2023.) Part NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager) will hitch a ride on Firefly [...]Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, alongside nine other science and technology payloads. Once there, LEXI will take one-of-a-kind images of the Earth’s magnetic fields and how they interact with the solar wind, providing critical insights into the plasma environment surrounding our planet.
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