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NASA's SunRISE mission to study coronal mass ejections


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Another mission to check out is the upcoming SunRISE mission to study CMEs, or coronal mass ejections from the Sun.  The mission is going to involve a fleet of 6 small "cubesat" spacecraft to study solar radiation and charged particles in the solar wind.  Recently there was a public talk on the mission released by the Jet Propulsion Lab that goes into more details.

Fun trivia fact.. Anime fans will probably recognize the name Sunrise in a different context.  The mission naming is a complete coincidence, but there are anime fans working on the project and they've had had a bit of fun with it.  As I've posted before the 6 spacecraft are informally named after Cowboy Bebop characters.  :)



 

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