NASA's solar maximum mission: A look at a new Sun

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Jun 1987

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Solar Atmosphere, Solar Flares, Solar Maximum Mission, Solar Physics, Solar Prominences, Sun, Sunspot Cycle, Sunspots, Abundance, Imaging Spectrometers, Irradiance, Magnetic Fields, Polarimeters, Radiometers

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As part of the ongoing process of trying to understand the physical processes at work in the Sun, the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) spacecraft was launched on February 14, 1980, near the height of the solar cycle, to enable the solar physics community to examine, in more physically meaningful detail than ever before, the most violent aspect of solar activity: flares. The scientific products of SMM are substantial: by 1986, over 400 papers based on SMM observations and their interpretations had appeared in scientific journals. More important than such numerical measures of success is the significance of the science that has come from SMM. The following topics, the Sun as a star, solar flares, and the active solar atmosphere, as well as other findings of SMM investigators are described. The instruments on the SMM are also described.

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