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Overview

R. C. Elphic is affiliated with the Ames Research Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on physics and astronomy, with particular attention to subfields such as astronomy and astrophysics, archeology, and aerospace engineering.

The scientist's work covers topics including astro and planetary science, historical astronomy and related studies, historical, religious, and philosophical studies, planetary science and exploration, as well as space exploration and technology.

Published research by R. C. Elphic includes papers appearing in notable scientific venues. Two recent papers are:

  • THE SILFELA MISSION TO ARISTARCHUS PLATEAU ON THE MOON, 2024, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Potential bedrock exposures of Schrödinger impact melt sheet and/or polymict impact breccias within a crater floor fracture system and volcanic vent, 2025, Planetary and Space Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include L. S. Sollitt, Robert C. Anderson, D. L. Buczkowski, A. Colaprete, and Steven D. Dibb.

R. C. Elphic's contributions are published predominantly in:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Planetary and Space Science

Best Publications

  • Initial ISEE magnetometer results - Magnetopause observations

    C. T. Russell;R. C. Elphic

  • Detection of Water in the LCROSS Ejecta Plume

    Anthony Colaprete;Peter Schultz;Jennifer Heldmann;Diane Wooden

  • Initial ISEE magnetometer results: magnetopause observations

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  • ISEE observations of flux transfer events at the dayside magnetopause

    C. T. Russell;R. C. Elphic

  • Fluxes of fast and epithermal neutrons from Lunar Prospector: evidence for water ice at the lunar poles.

    W. C. Feldman;S. Maurice;A. B. Binder;B. L. Barraclough

  • Depletion of solar wind plasma near a planetary boundary

    B. J. Zwan;R. A. Wolf

  • Global distribution of neutrons from Mars: Results from Mars Odyssey

    W. C. Feldman;W. V. Boynton;R. L. Tokar;T. H. Prettyman

  • FAST satellite observations of large‐amplitude solitary structures

    R. E. Ergun;C. W. Carlson;J. P. McFadden;F. S. Mozer

  • Direct evidence of surface exposed water ice in the lunar polar regions

    Shuai Li;Shuai Li;Paul G. Lucey;Ralph E. Milliken;Paul O. Hayne

  • Diviner Lunar Radiometer Observations of Cold Traps in the Moon’s South Polar Region

    David A. Paige;Matthew A. Siegler;Jo Ann Zhang;Paul O. Hayne

  • The driving of the plasma sheet by the solar wind

    Joseph E. Borovsky;Michelle F. Thomsen;Richard C. Elphic

  • Global distribution of near-surface hydrogen on Mars

    W. C. Feldman;T. H. Prettyman;S. Maurice;J. J. Plaut

  • Understanding the Lunar Surface and Space-Moon Interactions

    Paul Lucey;Randy L. Korotev;Jeffrey J. Gillis;Larry A. Taylor

  • Elemental composition of the lunar surface: Analysis of gamma ray spectroscopy data from Lunar Prospector

    T. H. Prettyman;J. J. Hagerty;R. C. Elphic;W. C. Feldman

  • Evidence for water ice near the lunar poles

    W. C. Feldman;S. Maurice;D. J. Lawrence;R. C. Little

  • Observations of reconnection of interplanetary and lobe magnetic field lines at the high‐latitude magnetopause

    J. T. Gosling;M. F. Thomsen;S. J. Bame;R. C. Elphic

  • Global Elemental Maps of the Moon: The Lunar Prospector Gamma-Ray Spectrometer

    D. J. Lawrence;W. C. Feldman;B. L. Barraclough;A. B. Binder

  • The Earth's plasma sheet as a laboratory for flow turbulence in high-β MHD

    Joseph E. Borovsky;Richard C. Elphic;Herbert O. Funsten;Michelle F. Thomsen

  • FAST observations in the downward auroral current region: Energetic upgoing electron beams, parallel potential drops, and ion heating

    C. W. Carlson;J. P. McFadden;R. E. Ergun;M. Temerin

  • Plasma flow reversals at the dayside magnetopause and the origin of asymmetric polar cap convection

    J. T. Gosling;M. F. Thomsen;S. J. Bame;R. C. Elphic

  • FAST satellite observations of electric field structures in the auroral zone

    R. E. Ergun;C. W. Carlson;J. P. McFadden;F. S. Mozer

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Lawrence
David J. Lawrence Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Christopher T. Russell
Christopher T. Russell University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas H. Prettyman
Thomas H. Prettyman Planetary Science Institute
Michelle F. Thomsen
Michelle F. Thomsen Planetary Science Institute
Sylvestre Maurice
Sylvestre Maurice Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology
Olivier Gasnault
Olivier Gasnault Paul Sabatier University
James A. Slavin
James A. Slavin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David T. Vaniman
David T. Vaniman Planetary Science Institute
David J. McComas
David J. McComas Princeton University
J. T. Gosling
J. T. Gosling University of Colorado Boulder

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