Sun
celestial targetCelestial target
Sun is retained as a celestial target in the planetary exploration collection. 49 current mission dossiers explicitly identify Sun as a destination or target.
- Science area
- planetary
- Related records
- 49
49 related records 114 sources
Extreme-ultraviolet Solar Dynamics Observatory view of the Sun as a bright orange disk with a dark coronal hole near center-right.
Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA. License: NASA media usage guidelines.
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The Sun observed in extreme ultraviolet light by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on March 28, 2013, showing a coronal hole near the center-right of the disk.
What this record covers
- Science area
- planetary
- Connected records
- 49
Classification and identifiers3 fields
Catalog and authority identifiers are preserved here for readers who need to reconcile this record with another archive.
- Record class
- Celestial target
- Lifecycle
- Not applicable
- iau designation
- Sun
Connected archive records
missionJames Webb Space TelescopemissionSolar and Heliospheric ObservatorymissionAdvanced Composition ExplorermissionSolar OrbitermissionAditya-L1missionIRASmissionHerschel Space ObservatorymissionPlanckmissionGaiamissionCHEOPSmissionEuclidmissionLandsat 1missionLandsat 5missionTerramissionAquamissionAuramissionCloudSatmissionSMAPmissionDSCOVRmissionLandsat 9missionPioneer 6missionPioneer 7missionPioneer 8missionPioneer 9missionPioneer EmissionLandsat 2missionLandsat 3missionLandsat 4missionLandsat 6missionLandsat 7missionLandsat 8missionISEE-3missionWindmissionCOBEmissionTransition Region and Coronal ExplorermissionAeronomy of Ice in the MesospheremissionCALIPSOmissionOrbiting Carbon Observatory-2missionNancy Grace Roman Space TelescopemissionIMAPmissionPACEmissionNISARmissionCarruthers Geocorona ObservatorymissionSWFO-L1missionSPHERExmissionPUNCHmissionWISE/NEOWISEmissionNEO SurveyormissionPlato
Sources and further reading
- NASA Science: James Webb Space TelescopeNASA
- NASA Science: Cosmic Origins and Survey MissionsNASA
- NASA Science: Solar and Heliospheric ObservatoryNASA
- NASA Science: Missions Exploring the SunNASA
- NASA Science: Advanced Composition Explorer: Advanced Composition ExplorerNASA
- NOAA SWPC: ACE Real-Time Solar WindNOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
- Advanced Composition Explorer official development-flight photographNASA Image and Video Library
- NASA Science: Solar OrbiterNASA
- ESA: Solar OrbiterEuropean Space Agency
- ISRO: Aditya-L1 Mission DetailsISRO
- ISRO: Aditya-L1 Completes First Halo OrbitISRO
- Aditya-L1 official development-flight photographISRO
- NASA JPL: Infrared Astronomical Satellite: IRASNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- NASA IPAC IRSA: Infrared Astronomical SatelliteNASA IPAC Infrared Science Archive
- ESA Science Mission NavigatorEuropean Space Agency
- ESA: Space Science MissionsEuropean Space Agency
- Herschel Space Observatory official development-flight photographESA
- Planck official development-flight photographESA
- NASA Science: GaiaNASA
- ESA: Gaia Spacecraft Operations EndEuropean Space Agency
- Gaia official development-flight photographESA
- ESA: Cheops OverviewESA
- ESA: Cheops PayloadESA
- CHEOPS official development-flight photographESA
- NASA Science: EuclidNASA
- Euclid official development-flight photographNASA Image and Video Library
- USGS: Fifty Years of Landsat: Landsat 1U.S. Geological Survey
- USGS: Fifty Years of LandsatU.S. Geological Survey
- USGS Earthshots: The Landsat ProgramU.S. Geological Survey
- NASA Science: Landsat ProgramNASA
- USGS: Fifty Years of Landsat: Landsat 5U.S. Geological Survey
- NASA Science: TerraNASA
- NASA Science: A-Train Earth Observatory ConstellationNASA
- Terra official development-flight photographNASA Earth Observatory / Terra project
- Terra institutional photograph provenanceNASA Earth Observatory
- NASA Science: AquaNASA
- NASA Science: AuraNASA
- NASA Science: CloudSatNASA
- CloudSat official development-flight photographWikimedia Commons
- CloudSat institutional photograph provenanceNASA Science
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