What Is BU Doing on the Moon?
It’s official: Boston University is out of this world. A telescope developed and built in a BU lab has landed on the moon.
The Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI)—which will help advance research into the magnetosphere, the Earth’s protective shield—is strapped to the top of NASA’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 spacecraft. The lunar lander launched from Florida back in January and spent its first weeks in space orbiting the Earth before setting course for the moon.
In the video above, BU student Natalie Lett (COM’27) explains LEXI’s mission and the space science questions the team behind it hopes to answer. And, if you want to dive deeper into the LEXI story, check out The Brink’s other stories below, which capture the telescope’s construction, launch, and moon landing.
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