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Satellites to stage fake solar eclipse to study secrets of Sun’s corona
The occulter satellite will fly around 150 meters distant from its ... for Polarimetric and Imaging Investigation of the Corona of the Sun. Proba-3 achieves millimeter precision by integrating ...
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NASA’s PUNCH is set to study how the Sun influences the space around us
The electrons in the corona and solar wind scatter sunlight ... or doughnut-shaped, field of view around the Sun between 6 and 32 solar radii — similar in coverage to the LASCO C3 coronagraph ...
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New insights into the Sun's corona emerge from the first successful detailed magnetic field measurements – crucial for understanding solar eruptions
The Sun’s corona, its outermost atmospheric layer ... 1.05 and 1.60 solar radii and varied from less than 1 gauss to around 20 gauss. With these measurements, they were able to create a global ...