April 2024
The promise of solar energy for sustainable development and space exploration
...with the transmission array to the right and the receivers to the left. Sustainable development The use of solar energy could support various international terrestrial initiatives including the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular...
06 December 2019
Parker Solar Probe reveals major new insights on the Sun
... of climate and space sciences and engineering at the University of Michigan who serves as principal investigator for Parker's Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument suite. "So we are missing something fundamental about the sun...
31 January 2020
First images of new solar telescope produces most detailed images of the Sun
... work by a large team devoted to designing and building a premier solar research observatory, we are close to the finish line. I'm extremely ... propagate into the solar system where the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter missions will measure...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... – in which our planet resides.” We are all Solar Orbiters Solar Orbiter will be one of two complementary spacecraft studying the... its extended atmosphere,” says Holly Gilbert, NASA Solar Orbiter Project Scientist. “The powerful combination of ...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
... and communication? It could be the result of a cyber attack, or it could also be the result of a severe geomagnetic storm due to solar activity. Even if the probability of the latter is low, it should not be totally ignored. For the asset management...
10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
... with four instrument suites designed to study plasma, magnetic fields, energetic particles, and image the solar wind. The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons investigation, or SWEAP, will gather data on the most abundant particles...
