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Filter this Collection| x name | x image | x has operated instrument | x main observation target | x anscillary observation target | x article |
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| x Yohkoh |
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Hard X-ray Telescope |
Yohkoh (ようこう, Sunbeam in Japanese), known before launch as Solar-A, was a Solar observatory spacecraft of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan), in collaboration with space agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom. It...
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| x Hinode |
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Solar flare |
Hinode (Japanese: ひので, IPA: [çinode], Sunrise; English: /ˈhiːnoʊdeɪ/), formerly Solar-B, is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Solar mission with United States and United Kingdom collaboration. It is the follow-up to the Yohkoh (Solar-A) mission...
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| x TRACE |
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Photosphere |
TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer) was a NASA space telescope designed to investigate the connections between fine-scale magnetic fields and the associated plasma structures on the Sun by providing high resolution images and observation...
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| x Advanced Composition Explorer |
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Solar wind |
Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is a NASA space exploration mission being conducted as part of the Explorer program to study matter in situ, comprising energetic particles from the solar wind, the interplanetary medium, and other sources. Real...
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| x Ulysses probe |
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Magnetic field direction | Comet McNaught-Hartley |
Ulysses is a decommissioned robotic space probe that was designed to study the Sun as a joint venture of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft was originally named Odysseus, because of its lengthy and indirect trajectory to near...
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| Solar wind speed | Comet McNaught | ||||
| Sun south pole | Comet Hyakutake | ||||
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| x Solar and Heliospheric Observatory |
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Sun |
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Astrium) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on December 2, 1995 to study the Sun,...
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| x Helios 1 | in-situ plasma | ||||
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| x Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager |
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Solar flare particle acceleration |
Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI, or more rarely Explorer 81 or originally High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager or HESSI) is the sixth mission in the line of NASA Small Explorer missions (also known as SMEX). Launched...
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| Solar flare explosive energy release | |||||
| Electromagnetic radiation from 3 keV to 20 MeV | |||||
