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Jun 1984

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Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (ISSN 0270-5214), vol. 5, Apr.-June 1984, p. 188-196. NASA-supported research.

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Solar Flares, Solar Maximum Mission, Payload Retrieval (Sts), Solar Constant, Solar Instruments, Solar Spectrometers, Spacecraft Maintenance

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The successful retrieval and repair of the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) satellite by Shuttle astronauts in April 1984 permitted continuance of solar flare observations that began in 1980. The SMM carries a soft X ray polychromator, gamma ray, UV and hard X ray imaging spectrometers, a coronagraph/polarimeter and particle counters. The data gathered thus far indicated that electrical potentials of 25 MeV develop in flares within 2 sec of onset. X ray data show that flares are composed of compressed magnetic loops that have come too close together. Other data have been taken on mass ejection, impacts of electron beams and conduction fronts with the chromosphere and changes in the solar radiant flux due to sunspots.

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