NASA’s Blue Ghost Mission to Deliver First BU-Engineered Device to the Moon
A telescope created by Brian Walsh, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and his team, will be hitching a ride on NASA’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander. The Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) will be the first BU-created device to land on another planetary body. “LEXI will image, for the first time, the boundary of Earth’s magnetic field,” Walsh says, and how it deflects solar wind and charged particles emanating from the sun.
