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This mission consists of a constellation of four small satellites that will make 3D observations of the entire inner heliosphere to learn how the solar corona is transformed into the solar wind. “PUNCH [Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere] is the first mission specifically designed to unify two major fields of solar physics: the solar corona and the solar wind,” emphasized the mission's principal investigator, Craig DeForest, in a co…

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NASA’s PUNCH Solar Wind Mission | Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s PUNCH Solar Wind Mission | Goddard Space Flight CenterNASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH Mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun’s corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.Watch the video to learn how imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together will hel…