Paul F. Dietz wrote:

D Schneider wrote:

How much plasma is there on the Moon? I would have thought that the
density of earth's atmosphere falls off rapidly after LEO (isn't drag
negligible by MEO?). Does the solar wind have enough density to
produce arcing?

The concern would be that there would be a runaway discharge from
secondary ions. You wouldn't need much to get that process started.


Can you explain in more detail how the secondary ions would be formed?
What are you seeing as the primary ion, and what atoms become the
secondary ions?

/dps

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