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//Purpose:// Collect solar wind samples for return to Earth... The Genesis mission will provide more clues with its collected samples of the solar wind, material flowing outward from the Sun.... In 2004, Genesis returned the samples to Earth.... launched from Kennedy Space Center... Relative to the Sun, Genesis traveled ~1.8 billion miles, essentially the motion of the Earth about the Sun for 1127 days.... Total distance traveled from launch to Earth return: ~32 million kilometers (20 million miles)...... 884.... 1127..... COOL PIC!at.....[|http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov] || Sun's north and south poles. <---Exploring these regions is the aim of the Ulysses mission, a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency........ Ulysses made its first pass of the Sun's south pole in 1994, followed by a pass of the Sun's north pole in 1995...... Ulysses passed Jupiter on February 8,1992..... was built by Dornier Systems of Germany for the European Space Agency..... || TRACE enables solar physicists to study the connections between fine-scale magnetic fields and the associated plasma structures on the Sun in a quantitative way by observing the photosphere, the transition region, and the corona TRACE was launched on a pegasus launch vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base in April 1998 http://trace.lmsal.com/POD/images/T171_20080331_070430.jpg || 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. 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 Scince Enterprise (ESE) with precise measurements of solar radiation. || RIGHT-CLICK on these links to "Open in a new window"
 * Category 9 - Solar Astronomy **
 * Genesis || JPL Past.......//Launch:// August 8, 2001...
 * Days of Solar Wind Collection**
 * Days of spaceflight**
 * Ulysses || JPL & NASA Current.....//Launch:// October 6, 1990....
 * 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