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Home A model diagram of NASA’s HERMES instrument suite. The four instruments are shown along with the ICE BOX, or Instrument Control Electronics Box, and SWEM, or Solar Wind electrons alphas and protons Electronics Module. (NASA) A model diagram of NASA's HERMES instrument suite. The four instruments are shown along with the ICE BOX, or Instrument Control Electronics Box, and SWEM, or Solar Wind electrons alphas and protons Electronics Module. (NASA)

A model diagram of NASA’s HERMES instrument suite. The four instruments are shown along with the ICE BOX, or Instrument Control Electronics Box, and SWEM, or Solar Wind electrons alphas and protons Electronics Module. (NASA)

A model diagram of NASA's HERMES instrument suite. The four instruments are shown along with the ICE BOX, or Instrument Control Electronics Box, and SWEM, or Solar Wind electrons alphas and protons Electronics Module. (NASA)

A model diagram of NASA’s HERMES instrument suite. The four instruments are shown along with the ICE BOX, or Instrument Control Electronics Box, and SWEM, or Solar Wind electrons alphas and protons Electronics Module. (NASA)

Artist rendition showing the flapping of the magnetosphere (dark region), which leaves the Moon exposed to energized particles in the solar wind (yellow-orange). Gateway’s path around the Moon, the near-rectilinear halo orbit, will pass briefly through the elongated tail of Earth’s magnetosphere. (E. Masongsong, UCLA EPSS)