Questions tagged [gamma-rays]
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What will Taiwan's NSPO put in orbit around the Moon in 2025? How will it get there? What will it do?
The Taipei Times article NSPO head eyeing 80% autonomy of satellite industry says:
Following the six-satellite Formosat-7/COSMIC-2 constellation’s launch in 2019, weather observation satellite Triton ...
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Examples of gamma ray or X-ray imaging of small planets, moons, or asteroids, or at least how to calculate intensity thereof?
Have any spatially resolved measurements of gamma rays or X-rays from medium and small solar system bodies been collected from space? These might be planets, moons, or asteroids for example, but ...
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How can satellites measure the energy of individual ~100 MeV gamma ray photons with reasonable certainty
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From the AstroMEV website:
Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) are high-energy photons originating from the Earth's atmosphere in association with thunderstorm activity. TGFs ...
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