• Thumbnail for Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment
    The Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment (SIDE) was a lunar science experiment, first deployed by astronauts on the lunar surface in 1969 as part of Apollo...
    9 KB (967 words) - 13:51, 3 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package
    Neugebauer. Suprathermal Ion Detection: Rice University, J. W. Freeman, Jr.; Marshall Space Flight Center, Curt Michel. Heat Flow Experiment: Columbia University...
    28 KB (1,175 words) - 13:38, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment
    (ALSEP). It was contained as part of the same housing as the Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment (SIDE) which also housed the electronics for the CCGE. The...
    7 KB (813 words) - 11:37, 30 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apollo 12
    atmosphere and how it varies, a Lunar Ionosphere Detector (LID, also known as the Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment, or SIDE), intended to study the charged...
    63 KB (7,677 words) - 03:07, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apollo (spacecraft)
    compartments used to carry, among other things: the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages ALSEP, the modularized equipment transporter (MET) (a hand-pulled...
    18 KB (2,442 words) - 17:04, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fallen Astronaut
    Lunar Traverse Gravimeter Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment Heat Flow Experiment Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment Ground support Mobile Launcher Launch Umbilical...
    16 KB (1,417 words) - 09:08, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apollo 14
    Experiment (PSE), Active Seismic Experiment (ASE), Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment (SIDE), Cold Cathode Ion Gauge Experiment (CCIG), and Charged Particle...
    75 KB (9,099 words) - 04:35, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lunar plaque
    Lunar Traverse Gravimeter Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment Heat Flow Experiment Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment Ground support Mobile Launcher Launch Umbilical...
    8 KB (976 words) - 08:13, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apollo TV camera
    Lunar Traverse Gravimeter Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment Heat Flow Experiment Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment Ground support Mobile Launcher Launch Umbilical...
    41 KB (4,217 words) - 11:48, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment
    The Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment (LEAM) was a lunar science experiment that flew to the Moon on board Apollo 17 in 1972. It collected information...
    6 KB (656 words) - 23:39, 21 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apollo 11 goodwill messages
    Lunar Traverse Gravimeter Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment Heat Flow Experiment Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment Ground support Mobile Launcher Launch Umbilical...
    11 KB (476 words) - 23:46, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lunar water
    obtained by the Apollo 14 ALSEP Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment, SIDE, on March 7, 1971. A series of bursts of water vapor ions were observed by the instrument...
    58 KB (6,657 words) - 15:58, 22 August 2024
  • incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. "Experiment: Suprathermal Energy Ionic Charge Analyzer". NASA. 28 October 2021. Retrieved...
    11 KB (1,099 words) - 01:08, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe
    and halo), interstellar and inner source pick-up ions, suprathermal, energetic, and accelerated ions from SEPs, interplanetary shocks, as well as ACRs...
    23 KB (2,800 words) - 22:42, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Advanced Composition Explorer
    Advanced Composition Explorer (category Cosmic-ray experiments)
    about 800 km/s. Like the solar wind distribution of all ions, that of oxygen has a suprathermal tail of higher-energy particles; that is, in the frame...
    37 KB (4,395 words) - 00:13, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dynamics Explorer 2
    high enough to permit measurements above the interaction regions of suprathermal ions, and also plasma flow measurements at the feet of the magnetospheric...
    30 KB (3,815 words) - 00:35, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Explorer 31
    in the spherical ion-mass spectrometer. The purpose of this experiment was to measure the electron energy spectrum in the suprathermal energy range of...
    12 KB (1,437 words) - 14:32, 16 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Wind (spacecraft)
    Magnetic Field Investigation (MFI), the Solar Wind and Suprathermal Ion Composition Experiment (SMS), The Energetic Particles: Acceleration, Composition...
    50 KB (5,637 words) - 00:14, 23 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dynamics Explorer 1
    Antarctica, at an L value of about 4, and the broad-band magnetic field detector from experiment 1981-070A-02. The primary objective of the investigation was to...
    23 KB (3,025 words) - 00:09, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for ATS-1
    stabilized by rotation. A total of fifteen experiments were conducted during the mission: Suprathermal Ion Detector Biaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer Omnidirectional...
    7 KB (517 words) - 10:16, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar Orbiter
    measurements of solar wind ion composition for key elements (e.g. the C, N, O group and Fe, Si or Mg) EPD – Energetic Particle Detector (Spain): Measures the...
    39 KB (3,144 words) - 21:59, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for STEREO
    and SupraThermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC), led by Antoinette Galvin, to study the plasma characteristics of protons, alpha particles and heavy ions. STEREO/WAVES...
    27 KB (2,663 words) - 00:08, 23 July 2024
  • High Frequency Plasma Wave Detectors LEP Low Energy Particle Detectors SMS Suprathermal Ion Mass Spectrometer TED Velocity Distribution of Thermal Electrons...
    4 KB (114 words) - 03:09, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cluster II (spacecraft)
    S2CID 233922057. Lazar, M.; Pierrard, S. (2020). "Characteristics of solar wind suprathermal halo electrons". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 642 (A130): A130. Bibcode:2020A&A...
    142 KB (12,689 words) - 16:00, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apollo 15 operations on the Lunar surface
    seismic experiment, lunar surface magnetometer, solar wind spectrometer, suprathermal ion detector, cold cathode gauge experiment, lunar dust detector, and...
    34 KB (5,302 words) - 02:03, 23 July 2024
  • to study the Earth's magnetosphere, was equipped with the Canadian suprathermal ion mass spectrometer. In 1996, the Canadian auroral ultra-violet imager...
    148 KB (20,478 words) - 12:58, 8 August 2024