Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aas...192.1502b&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 192nd AAS Meeting, #15.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 30, p.840
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
NASA's proposed Solar Probe mission will provide an opportunity to directly view material in the atmosphere of our nearest star: the Sun. The Probe is designed to transit both solar poles and approach about as close as currently feasible: within about 4 solar radii. Onboard instruments will directly sample the particle composition near the spacecraft and view the solar poles from its nearby perspective. UCSD's newly developed lightweight light-baffling and very wide-angle optical systems permit viewing Thompson-scattered sunlight over nearly the whole sky around the spacecraft to within a few degrees of the solar disk. The fly-by's varying perspective will enable a 3-dimensional coronal reconstruction having unprecedented detail. These observations from within the acceleration region should greatly refine our understanding of coronal material propagation.
Buffington Andrew
Hick Pierre P.
Jackson Bernard V.
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