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Abbey Interrante

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Science Writer at NASA Blogs

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  • 1 month ago | scitechdaily.com | Abbey Interrante |Mike O'Neill

    An artist’s concept shows the four satellites of NASA’s PUNCH mission observing the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Credit: Southwest Research Institute NASA’s new PUNCH mission just opened its eyes to space, capturing its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the surrounding solar system. With four satellites now fully activated, scientists are calibrating their instruments to peel away light pollution and unveil the delicate strands of solar wind as they drift through space.

  • 1 month ago | blogs.nasa.gov | Abbey Interrante

    NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission successfully completed spacecraft commissioning this week, opening its instrument doors to capture “first light”, the mission’s first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the surrounding space. This is the first step in revealing new details of how the solar atmosphere unfolds and streams through the solar system. Now, mission operation teams will continue the commissioning phase for the spacecraft’s instruments.

  • 2 months ago | blogs.nasa.gov | Abbey Interrante

    Mission controllers for NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) have received full acquisition of signal from the four small satellites, indicating that they are functioning normally and at full power. Over a two-year planned mission, PUNCH will make global, 3D observations of the Sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere, and how it becomes the solar wind.

  • Feb 24, 2025 | phys.org | Abbey Interrante

    The Earth is immersed in material streaming from the sun. This stream, called the solar wind, is washing over our planet, causing breathtaking auroras, impacting satellites and astronauts in space, and even affecting ground-based infrastructure.

  • Feb 21, 2025 | blogs.nasa.gov | Abbey Interrante

    Earth is immersed in material streaming from the Sun. This stream, called the solar wind, is washing over our planet, causing breathtaking auroras, impacting satellites and astronauts in space, and even affecting ground-based infrastructure. NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission will be the first to image the Sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere, and solar wind together to better understand the Sun, solar wind, and Earth as a single connected system.

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28 Aug 24

RT @NASASun: Discovery alert! 🚨 After 60 years of searching, scientists found the global electric field extending Earth’s atmosphere into…

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23 Aug 24

RT @NASASun: The next chapter of space exploration is here! 🛰️ 🛰️ ESCAPADE will launch using Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket and join NASA…

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9 Aug 24

RT @NASASun: Tomorrow is National S’mores Day! 🎉 🧑‍🍳 Celebrate with us as we put the Sun’s rays to work and take s’mores-making to a whol…