| NASA'S SOLAR STEREO MISSION | G99-102 | 12/8/99 | 00:01:00 | The Solar Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission, designed to study the origin, evolution and interplanetary consequences of coronal mass ejection (CME), will fly in 2004. Selection of the instruments to be flown on the mission was announced today. STEREO will study CMEs, some of the most massive disturbances in our solar system, by using two identical spacecraft in orbit with the Earth -- one well ahead and one behind the Earth's path. This, along with Earth-based observations, will provide a unique 3-dimensional view of these phenomena. The STEREO mission will consist of an international collaboration involving participants from France, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom. It is the third mission selected for NASA's Solar-Terrestrial Probe (STP) Program, under the Agency's Sun-Earth Connections Theme.
Animation from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab for a proposel on a new solar mission "STEREO." Two satellites will give a stereo view of the sun. |