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Punch Mission

April 9, 2020
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Dipankar Banerjee, an Indian solar physicist, has been named a co-investigator of the Punch Mission at NASA.

More about the mission

  • It stands for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere.
  • It will be launched in 2022.
  • It is concerned with understanding the transition of particles from the corona of the sun through the solar winds which fill the interplanetary space.
  • The microsats have been used here to orbit the earth and the study corona and the atmosphere of the sun.
  • It will also track the solar wind and coronal mass ejections that influence the space atmosphere.
  • India is expected to join this mission with its own Aditya L1 built for the same purposes.

 Regions of sun

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  • Corona- Outermost region of the sun.
  • Coronal mass ejections are the plasmas of enormous energy that gets thrown out of the atmosphere of the Sun and influence the weather events in space.
  • Solar winds are the constant streams of solar material that flows of the sun.

 

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