SOLAR-B artists concept

Autor:

NASA/GSFC/C. Meaney

Credit:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/solar-b/solar_002.html
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/156191main_solarb_light2_720x486.jpg

Krótki link:

https://www.plwiki.pl/b/579f8

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Wikimedia Commons

Wymiary:

720 x 486 Pixel (233820 Bytes)

Opis:

The Solar-B spacecraft will circle Earth in a sun-synchronous orbit for at least three years. This is a polar, rather than equatorial, orbit and will allow the instruments to remain in continuous sunlight for nine months of each year. Collectively, Solar-B's three science instruments -- the Solar Optical Telescope Focal Plane Package, X-ray Telescope and Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer -- will record how energy stored in the sun's magnetic field is released as that field rises into the sun's outer atmosphere.

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Public domain