Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
NASA’s next mission to the Moon will carry an instrument called LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager), which will provide the first-ever global view of the magnetic environment that shields Earth from solar radiation.
From the surface of the Moon, LEXI will capture wide-field images of Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, in low-energy (or "soft") X-rays. LEXI will study changes in the magnetosphere and help us learn more about how it interacts with a stream of particles from the Sun called the solar wind, which can pose hazards for Artemis astronauts traveling to the Moon.
Learn more about LEXI and its CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) flight to the Moon from Hyunju Connor, LEXI co-investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
More on LEXI: science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-lexi-will-provide-x-ray-vision-of-earths-magnetosphere
Music credit: "Breakthrough Discovery" by Phillip John Gregory [PRS] from Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Lacey Young (eMITS)
Videographer: Beth Anthony (eMITS)
Writer: Vanessa Thomas (eMITS)
Talent: Hyunju Connor (NASA)
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NASA’s next mission to the Moon will carry an instrument called LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager), which will provide the first-ever global view of the magnetic environment that shields Earth from solar radiation.
From the surface of the Moon, LEXI will capture wide-field images of Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, in low-energy (or "soft") X-rays. LEXI will study changes in the magnetosphere and help us learn more about how it interacts with a stream of particles from the Sun called the solar wind, which can pose hazards for Artemis astronauts traveling to the Moon.
Learn more about LEXI and its CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) flight to the Moon from Hyunju Connor, LEXI co-investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
More on LEXI: science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-lexi-will-provide-x-ray-vision-of-earths-magnetosphere
Music credit: "Breakthrough Discovery" by Phillip John Gregory [PRS] from Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Lacey Young (eMITS)
Videographer: Beth Anthony (eMITS)
Writer: Vanessa Thomas (eMITS)
Talent: Hyunju Connor (NASA)
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14739. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14739. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/.
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASAGoddard
Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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· X: twitter.com/NASAGoddard
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· Flickr: flickr.com/photos/gsfc
