NASA scientists build first-ever wide-field X-ray imager
Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 13:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org)—Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides with Earth's exosphere and neutral gas in interplanetary space.