The SOHO Project.
Abstract
The model payload of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), part of the first cornerstone of the long-term ESA scientific program, includes a package of instruments whose primary scientific goal is the investigation of the processes leading to the formation of a hot solar atmosphere and the generation of the solar wind. The SOHO instrumentation will allow to establish in great detail the density and temperature structure of the solar atmosphere and the velocity fields, including the flow velocity of the expanding coronal plasma, from the base of the corona up to 6 solar radii. The combined remote and 'in situ' observations are expected to have as a result the identification of the processes at the base of the solar wind generation.
- Publication:
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Mass Outflows from Stars and Galactic Nuclei
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1007/978-94-009-2941-8_56
- Bibcode:
- 1988ASSL..142..419A
- Keywords:
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- European Space Programs;
- Instrument Packages;
- Soho Mission;
- Solar Corona;
- Solar Instruments;
- Solar Observatories;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Heliosphere;
- Satellite-Borne Instruments;
- Solar Wind;
- Spaceborne Telescopes;
- Space Sciences (General)