NASA's Search for the Solar Connection II
Abstract
A survey of future space missions planned to investigate the sun and how its events affect the earth is presented. The International Solar-Polar mission, scheduled for 1983, is designed to investigate the three-dimensional structure of the solar-wind flow and to study the corona from above the sun's poles. The Spacelab mission will make major contributions to solar study by employing a 1.25 m telescope for observations from the near violet to the near infrared wavelengths with an angular resolution of 0.1 arc sec, and will be capable of resolving features on the sun 72 km across. Other missions, including the International Sun-Earth Explorer and the solar cycle and dynamic mission, which is designed to study the global oscillations of the sun, are also discussed.
- Publication:
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Sky and Telescope
- Pub Date:
- September 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979S&T....58..223C
- Keywords:
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- Solar Maximum Mission;
- Solar Physics;
- Solar Terrestrial Interactions;
- Astronomical Photography;
- Earth Magnetosphere;
- International Sun Earth Explorers;
- Satellite-Borne Instruments;
- Satellite-Borne Photography;
- Skylab Program;
- Solar Corona;
- Solar Cycles;
- Solar Spectra;
- Solar Wind;
- Spacelab;
- Solar Physics