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Firefly Aerospace’s upcoming Blue Ghost lunar lander will assist NASA in enhancing its comprehension of our planet and its reactions to cosmic weather.
The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager device, or LEXI, is among 10 NASA instruments aboard Blue Ghost, which is scheduled for launch at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) on Wednesday (Jan. 15) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
LEXI, an X-ray imaging device, features nine lobster-eye micropore optical components and is engineered to observe the interaction between solar wind and Earth’s magnetosphere. It will capture low-energy X-rays produced when the solar wind collides with Earth’s magnetic field at the magnetopause, which is the outer limit of the magnetosphere.
The device will monitor how the magnetosphere expands and contracts, in addition to other shape modifications caused by fluctuating solar wind strengths from the perspective of the moon, offering a distinctive, first global insight into this phenomenon.
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