CRaTER folks,

This morning before the Monday Ops telecon, I noticed that there was an unusually large spike in noise around midnight between Jan 7-8.  I was going to give it more time before reporting anything about it, but the telecon started with a cryptic message from LROC that they had a glitch "over the weekend," so I went ahead and mentioned that CRaTER's noise level jumped to unusual levels over the weekend as well. 

You can see the obvious spike in the 3-month telemetry plot:

... and in the recent telemetry data there's still noise, peaking at rates of over 1000, with average rates usually below 100:




GOES shows nothing unusual going on - just the declining phase of a moderate/large particle event:





I'll keep an eye on things.  Hopefully these are just a coincidental one-off events in CRaTER and LROC!

-Jody