First measurements of the radiation dose on the lunar surface

Shenyi Zhang; Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber; Jia Yu; Chi Wang; Qiang Fu; Yongliao Zou; Yueqiang Sun; Chunqin Wang; Donghui Hou; Stephan I. Böttcher; Sönke Burmeister; Lars Seimetz; Björn Schuster; Violetta Knierim; Guohong Shen; Bin Yuan; Henning Lohf; Jingnan Guo; Zigong Xu; Johan L.Freiherr Von Forstner; Shrinivasrao R. Kulkarni; Haitao Xu; Changbin Xue; Jun Li; Zhe Zhang; He Zhang; Thomas Berger; Daniel Matthiä; Christine E. Hellweg; Xufeng Hou; Jinbin Cao; Zhen Chang; Binquan Zhang; Yuesong Chen; Hao Geng; Zida Quan

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaz1334

First measurements of the radiation dose on the lunar surface

Shenyi Zhang
, Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber^*
, Jia Yu
, Chi Wang
, Qiang Fu
, Yongliao Zou
, Yueqiang Sun
, Chunqin Wang
, Donghui Hou
, Stephan I. Böttcher
, Sönke Burmeister
, Lars Seimetz
, Björn Schuster
, Violetta Knierim
, Guohong Shen
, Bin Yuan
, Henning Lohf
, Jingnan Guo
, Zigong Xu
, Johan L.Freiherr Von Forstner

Shrinivasrao R. Kulkarni, Haitao Xu, Changbin Xue, Jun Li, Zhe Zhang, He Zhang, Thomas Berger, Daniel Matthiä, Christine E. Hellweg, Xufeng Hou, Jinbin Cao, Zhen Chang, Binquan Zhang, Yuesong Chen, Hao Geng, Zida Quan

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Space and Earth Sciences

CAS - National Space Science Center
Beijing Key Laboratory of Space Environment Exploration
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Key Laboratory of Environmental Space Situation Awareness Technology
Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics
Kiel University
CAS - National Astronomical Observatories
Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration
Chinese Academy of Sciences
University of Science and Technology of China
Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
German Aerospace Center
18th Research Institute
China Electronics Technology Group Corporation

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Abstract

Human exploration of the Moon is associated with substantial risks to astronauts from space radiation. On the surface of the Moon, this consists of the chronic exposure to galactic cosmic rays and sporadic solar particle events. The interaction of this radiation field with the lunar soil leads to a third component that consists of neutral particles, i.e., neutrons and gamma radiation. The Lunar Lander Neutrons and Dosimetry experiment aboard China's Chang'E 4 lander has made the first ever measurements of the radiation exposure to both charged and neutral particles on the lunar surface. We measured an average total absorbed dose rate in silicon of 13.2 ± 1 μGy/hour and a neutral particle dose rate of 3.1 ± 0.5 μGy/hour.

Original language	English
Article number	eaaz1334
Journal	Science Advances
Volume	6
Issue number	39
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz1334
State	Published - Sep 2020

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Zhang, S., Wimmer-Schweingruber, R. F., Yu, J., Wang, C., Fu, Q., Zou, Y., Sun, Y., Wang, C., Hou, D., Böttcher, S. I., Burmeister, S., Seimetz, L., Schuster, B., Knierim, V., Shen, G., Yuan, B., Lohf, H., Guo, J., Xu, Z., ... Quan, Z. (2020). First measurements of the radiation dose on the lunar surface. Science Advances, 6(39), Article eaaz1334. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz1334

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