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5. Solar Dynamics Captured By PUNCH: CRAIG DEFOREST & DAVID LIVINGSTON HOTEL MARS 090326
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Solar Dynamics Captured By PUNCH
Craig DeForest and David Livingston: DeForest details NASA's PUNCH mission, which provides continuous, global 3D imaging of the young solar wind, mapping the hypersonic plasma sweeping across our solar neighborhood. By utilizing four synchronized, deeply baffled satellites, the mission observes extremely faint solar material against the sun's glare, creating artificial eclipses. PUNCH has successfully identified the outer boundary of the solar corona and drastically improved space weather forecasts tenfold, allowing better preparation for power-grid-disrupting geomagnetic storms. With an unlimited budget, DeForest advocates launching a polar-orbiting spacecraft to study the sun's unexplored poles and resolve key magnetic field mysteries. (5)
Solar Dynamics Captured By PUNCH
Craig DeForest and David Livingston: DeForest details NASA's PUNCH mission, which provides continuous, global 3D imaging of the young solar wind, mapping the hypersonic plasma sweeping across our solar neighborhood. By utilizing four synchronized, deeply baffled satellites, the mission observes extremely faint solar material against the sun's glare, creating artificial eclipses. PUNCH has successfully identified the outer boundary of the solar corona and drastically improved space weather forecasts tenfold, allowing better preparation for power-grid-disrupting geomagnetic storms. With an unlimited budget, DeForest advocates launching a polar-orbiting spacecraft to study the sun's unexplored poles and resolve key magnetic field mysteries. (5)