Solar Energetic Particles (SEP), Solar Modulation and Space Radiation: New Opportunities in the AMS-02 Era

Session

Friday Afternoon 2

23 Oct 2015, 15:40

Queen Kapiolani Hotel

Conveners

Friday Afternoon 2

• Veronica Bindi (University of Hawai'i at Manoa (US))

44. The Advanced Neutron Spectrometer for Manned Exploration

Dr Mark Christl (Marshall Space Flight Center - Nasa)

23/10/2015, 15:40

An Advanced Neutron Spectrometer (ANS) is being developed to measure neutron spectrum in support future manned exploration mission. A prototype instrument has been designed and is being fabricated for a technology demonstration on board the ISS starting in 2016. The ANS measurement technique offers an improvement over the existing gate and capture method employed in boron dope plastic...

68. The Space Radiation Environment on the Surface of Mars Measured with the RAD Instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory

Hassler Don (Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA & Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France)

23/10/2015, 16:00

The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) is a compact, lightweight energetic particle analyzer currently operating on the surface of Mars as part of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mission. RAD is providing the first measurements of the energetic particle radiation environment on the surface of another planet due to solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and galactic cosmic rays (GCRs)....

63. Open discussion and final remarks

23/10/2015, 16:20