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LucaOly85
Per come è partito, il 24 dovrebbe effettivamente essere più debole del 23 e il 25 è previsto debole... Ma penso che dopo ciò che è successo nel passaggio tra il ciclo 23 e il 24, non si possa essere sicuri di niente
In ogni caso, per chi non lo sapesse, domani partirà una missione molto interessante della NASA: il Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Riporto qui un'introduzione al programma della missione:
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About The SDO Mission
SDO: The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission to be launched for NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) Program, a program designed to understand the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth. SDO is designed to help us understand the Sun's influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously.
SDO's goal is to understand, driving towards a predictive capability, the solar variations that influence life on Earth and humanity's technological systems by determining
- how the Sun's magnetic field is generated and structured
- how this stored magnetic energy is converted and released into the heliosphere and geospace in the form of solar wind, energetic particles, and variations in the solar irradiance.
Launch
SDO will be ready in February 10, 2010, 10:26 am EST for a launch on an Atlas V from SLC 41 at
Cape Canaveral.
Science
SDO will study how solar activity is created and how Space Weather comes from that activity. Measurements of the interior of the Sun, the Sun's magnetic field, the hot plasma of the solar corona, and the irradiance that creates the ionospheres of the planets are our primary data products.
Instruments
SDO will fly three scientific experiments:
- Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA)
- EUV Variability Experiment (EVE)
- Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI)
Each of these experiments perform several measurements that characterize how and why the Sun varies. These three instruments will observe the Sun simultaneously, performing the entire range of measurements necessary to understand the variations on the Sun."
Questo è il link al sito:
SDO | Solar Dynamics Observatory
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