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Space programs and missions · A guided course
Read the light that connects magnetic fields to the active Sun
Connect solar magnetism, complementary telescopes and calibrated spectra. Calculate sightline motion and scan timing, then choose archived observations using the instrument history behind them.
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Hinode’s Solar Optical Telescope observes Venus crossing the solar limb in June 2012. JAXA/NASA/Lockheed Martin. Full preserved frame retained; delivery copies resize or change format only. This rendering is not a temperature or magnetic-field map.
JAXA/NASA/Lockheed Martin · Image sourceYour place in the bigger picture
Build on familiar ideas, then choose a direction to explore next. Every course remains open.
From a charge to a spacecraft power system
Turn patterns of light into evidence about places we cannot touch.
Japan’s Hinode solar observatory
Read the light that connects magnetic fields to the active Sun
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