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SUMMARY: Modeling Atomic Oxygen Exposure on the Van Allen Probes Mission
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Gabe Schumm\, Boston University\nHosted by: Eric Boye
	rs\n\nPart of the Graduate Student Council Events.\n\nPart of the Student S
	eminar Series. A recording will be posted on the event page.\n\nAbstract: T
	he Van Allen Probes Mission consisted of two identical spacecraft flying in
	 highly elliptical orbits about the Earth\, with the goal of exploring the 
	dynamics of Earth’s radiation belts. During the low altitude periods of t
	he orbit\, the spacecraft were immersed in a region of high-density atomic 
	Oxygen\, which is known to degrade and change the properties of spacecraft 
	surfaces. In this project\, we modeled the atomic Oxygen fluence over the c
	ourse of the mission to help illuminate the observed degradation of the Ele
	ctric Field and Waves instrument aboard the spacecraft. The goal was to pro
	vide insight into what had happened and to help prevent similar exposures o
	n future long-duration missions.
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