Image of the Cold Plasmas around the Earth Observed by Telescope of Extreme Ultraviolet (TEX) onboard KAGUYA: Geoscience from the Moon

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We have succeeded in imaging of the terrestrial plasmasphere by the Telescope of Extreme Ultraviolet (TEX) aboard Japan's lunar orbiter KAGUYA. The view afforded by the KAGUYA orbit encompasses the plasma distribution in a single exposure, enabling us to examine for the first time the globally-averaged properties of the plasmasphere from the “side” (meridian) perspective. This is the world first image of the plasmasphere from the moon.