Conveners
TDM3 - Space weather at the Moon, from the Moon, and in the context of lunar exploration: Topical Discussion Meeting
- Fabrice Cipriani
- Iannis Dandouras (IRAP / CNRS)
- Yoshifumi Futaana
Description
This TDM complements the P2 Mars - Moon Space Weather plenary session (Gina di Braccio et al), with a particular focus on the Lunar environment.
The Moon’s surface offers a unique vantage point to characterize the solar wind, solar energetic particles, magnetospheric environments and interaction processes with airless bodies surfaces, and provides access to in situ resources. It is also a designated exploration target for ongoing and future institutional and private / commercial lunar missions, that will need to operate and survive accounting for highly variable space environment conditions. In this context we propose to organise a discussion around some key questions such as (but not exhaustively) :
1- Which operational scenarios, missions and instruments could provide key space weather observations from the lunar surface and lunar orbit ?
2 – What could we learn from the May 2024 Solar storm observations in terms of impact to the lunar environments ?
3 - What synergies would be necessary between future space based lunar missions and Earth-or solar system based observations to maximise humans and systems safety in lunar exploration ?
4- How can the space weather community and investigations support and help mitigate the risk for human activities at the lunar surface ?
