Instrument study of the Lunar Dust eXplorer (LDX) for a lunar lander mission

Instrument study of the Lunar Dust eXplorer (LDX) for a lunar lander mission II: Laboratory model calibration

“…The grains are with an incident angle of 27°and different entry positions Z a on Plane A. The experimental signals are similar with primary simulation results Li et al (2014). When a charged particle flies through an array of electrodes, two types of induced charge signals are created with one maximum or two maxima.…”

“…This paper is the secondary paper about a simple dust detector -Lunar Dust eXplorer (LDX), which as planed to place on the lunar surface and monitor both natural and man-made dust coverage and cleansing effects that are not fully understood. The first paper reported the instrument geometry and the simulation results based COULOMB software (Li et al, 2014), which proofed that the design of LDX meets the requirement of a lunar lander mission. Beyond doubt, the experimental calibration is very important and indispensable for the detector development.…”