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tesis doctoral
Publicado 2017
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The lunar surface is pockmarked with large and small craters mostly formed due to meteoroid impacts on the Moon. Most of the craters formed are not erased with time due to lack of "weathering" processes such as no atmosphere and little erosion. The main focus of this research is to develop ground-based observational techniques to search for ongoing hypervelocity meteoroid impacts on the lunar surface. Additionally, to design radar observational techniques to detect and map sub-surface structures that have been buried by the lunar regolith. It is hypothesized that the developing, optically-dense hot ejecta cloud associated with the hypervelocity meteoroid impacts produce an associated complex plasma component that rapidly evolves resulting in a highly-transient Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) in the VHF/UHF spectral region. An observational EMP search was conducted in May 2014 for about 5 hou...