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 **Category 9 - Solar Astronomy** RIGHT-CLICK on these links to "Open in a new window"
 * Genesis || JPL Past ||
 * Ulysses || JPL & NASA Current ||
 * SOHO || NASA Current ||
 * TRACE || NASA Current ||
 * SORCE || NASA Current ||
 * STEREO || NASA Current ||
 * Wind || NASA Current ||

 JPL PAST Missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/past_missions.cfm JPL CURRENT Missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/index.cfm NASA CURRENT Missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html

1. What did all the different names mean in the Solar Astronomy presentation? (Ulysses, Genesis, SOHO, TRACE, STEREO, SORCE, Wind)
a. Names of men who went and explored space b. Moons found on the planets in space c. Missions into space to explore different things d. Rocketships to land on the moon

2. Launched in October 1990, this spacecraft studied the unexplored region of space above the sun's poles and also explored Jupiter for 17 days and is still in orbit. a. Ulysses b. Paris c. Reform d. Turnip

Launch: October 6, 1990 ** Ulysses is the first spacecraft to study the unexplored region of space above our Sun's poles. The spacecraft was launched and sent towards Jupiter. After studying Jupiter for 17 days, Ulysses used the giant planet's gravity to hurl it into an orbit out of the Ecliptic Plane, where planets orbit our Sun. No manmade vehicle has the power to break out of the ecliptic plane, but with the help of Jupiter's powerful gravity Ulysses settled into an orbit that allows it to fly over the Sun's polar regions. Now well into an extended mission, Ulysses continues to send back valuable information on the inner working of our star, especially its magnetic field and how it influences our solar system. //Put this picture on the ulysses slide cuz its a picture of Jupiter...//
 * ULYSSES

**GENESIS** Launch: August 8, 2001 Genesis collected samples of charged particles in the solar wind and returned them to Earth in September 2004. Although the capsule's parachutes did not deploy, scientists expect to be able to achieve most of their science objectives with samples recovered from the capsule.

launch: December 2, 1995 Scientists may have at last found a way to explore the heart of the sun with the detection of a special type of wave generated deep in the solar interior. The heart, or core, of the sun is the location of the sun's nuclear furnace, where fusion reactions power the sunlight that supports almost all life on Earth. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft may have glimpsed these waves in the form of ripples on the sun’s surface.
 * SOLAR AND HELIOSPHERIC OBSERVATORY**

This two-year mission, launched October 2006, will provide a unique and revolutionary view of the Sun-Earth System. The two nearly identical observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind - will trace the flow of energy and matter from the Sun to Earth. They will reveal the 3D structure of coronal mass ejections; violent eruptions of matter from the sun that can disrupt satellites and power grids, and help us understand why they happen.
 * Stereo**

WIND was launched on November 1, 1994 and was the first of two NASA spacecraft in the Global Geospace Science initiative and it was also part of the ISTP Project. WIND is positioned in a sunward, multiple double-lunar swingby orbit during the first two years of operation. The science objectives of the WIND mission are to provide complete plasma, energetic particle, and magnetic field input for magnetospheric and ionospheric studies, determine the magnetospheric output to interplanetary space in the up-stream region, investigate basic plasma processes occuring in the near-Earth solar wind, and provide baseline ecliptic plane observations to be used in heliospheric latitudes from ULYSSES.
 * Wind**



The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) is a NASA sponsored satellite mission that is providing state-of-the-art measurements of incoming x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, and total solar radiation. The measurements provided by SORCE specifically address long-term climate change, natural variability and enhanced climate prediction, and atmospheric ozone and UV-B radiation. These measurements are critical to studies of the Sun; its effect on our Earth system; and its influence on humankind. The SORCE spacecraft was launched on January 25, 2003 on a Pegasus XL launch vehicle to provide NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) with precise measurements of solar radiation.
 * SORCE**

Launch: 1998 April 1 The Transition Region and Coronal Explorer is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to image the solar corona and transition region at high angular and temporal resolution. Pegasus XL rocket carried NASA's TRACE (Transitional Region and Coronal Explorer) satellite from California's central coast. An L-1011 jumbo jet carried the Pegasus XL from Vandenberg AFB to the launch point southwest of Monterey and released it at a height of about 39,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean. The vehicle successfully placed TRACE into orbit.
 * TRACE**