{"id":5,"date":"2019-07-03T17:31:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T21:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lexi\/lunar-environment-heliospheric-x-ray-imager\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T15:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T20:46:52","slug":"lunar-environment-heliospheric-x-ray-imager","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lexi\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/lexi\/files\/2019\/07\/BU_LEXI_Logo_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"310\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The LEXI (Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager) instrument will take global images of the interaction of the solar wind and the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field. The instrument will be deployed and operate from the lunar surface in 2025 through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/commercial-lunar-payload-services\/\">NASA CLPS program<\/a>. The project is a multi-institute collaboration between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/\">Boston University<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/goddard\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jhu.edu\/\">Johns Hopkins University<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/welcome.miami.edu\/\">University of Miami<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ku.edu\/\">University of Kansas<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/\">University of Leicester<\/a> in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oDgSAg7K3Fw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the LEXI project details are in the mission paper (<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11214-024-01063-4\">Walsh et al., 2024)<\/a> or<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lexi\/contact-us\/\">contact us.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LEXI (Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager) instrument will take global images of the interaction of the solar wind and the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field. The instrument will be deployed and operate from the lunar surface in 2025 through the NASA CLPS program. The project is a multi-institute collaboration between Boston University, NASA Goddard Space Flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11219,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lexi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lexi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lexi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lexi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lexi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lexi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lexi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lexi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}