This Alpha scattering experiment is representative of those carried on Surveyor 5, 6, and 7. These spacecraft, launched starting in 1966, were used to survey the Moon's surface to help select a safe ...

A part of Rutherford’s scattering experiments, this particular experiment involved shooting alpha particles at a piece of gold foil with the source, foil, and detector placed in a vacuum vessel ...

Alpha particles, also known as alpha radiation, are the star players in the game of alpha decay — here's everything you need to know.

The Alpha Scattering Experiment, which had been left at the third sample site at the end of the first lunar day, gathered another 34 hours of useful data on the second lunar day.

Rutherford’s famous alpha-particle scattering experiment transformed our understanding of the atom and it inspired the new areas of physics including the theory of quantum mechanics. The pioneering ...

Here, an illustration of Rutherford's particle scattering device used in his gold foil experiment. (Image credit: BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images) Marsden and Geiger conducted the experiments primarily ...