NASA Chooses 4 Small Explorer Missions To Study Solar And Earth Relations

NASA will study heliophysics more deeply with four small browsing missions (Photo: Doc. NASA)

JAKARTA - The United States (NASA) Aeronautics and Antarctica Agency still wants to expand their knowledge of the dynamics of the Sun.

NASA also wants to study solar-related phenomena such as ejection of mass, coronal, aurora, and solar winds.

With this huge desire, NASA chose four small exploratory missions. The mission they choose will conduct a concept study to better understand the relationship between the Sun and Earth.

NASA's first rover mission chose was Magnetotail-Scale Investment and Earth Aurora (CINEMA).

This mission is mobilized to understand the structure and evolution of Earth's plasma sheet as well as how the earth's magnetic field moves heat.

Next, NASA selected the Chromospheric Magnetism Explorer (CMex) rover. This mission is carried out to understand the magnetic properties of the eruption from the sun and identify the source of the solar wind magnetis.

The Koral Mass ejection and Extreme Ultraviolet (ECCCO) Koral Connectivity Observatory was selected as the third mission.

The ECCCO is a spacecraft consisting of two instruments, namely an extreme image recorder in the wide field and an EUV spectrograph.

The ECCCO will try to understand the central corona and conditions that make the solar wind flow out. The target of this mission is an explanation of the origin of the creation of a mass stream and energy linking the Sun to the outer corona and the heliosphere.

Lastly, NASA used Magnetospheric Auroral Asymmetry Explorer (MAAX) to understand how electrodynamic coupling regulates the flow of aurora energy between the earth's magnetosphere and the ionosphere.

The four selected NASA explorers will join the heliophysical mission fleet. NASA says that the four selected missions are expected to be able to answer various science questions and could have an impact on heliophysics.

The mission's proposal is interesting as it develops and complements the science of our current mission fleet, has a broad potential impact, and can provide new, deeper insight into the solar atmosphere and space weather, NASA Science Association Administrator Nicky Fox said in its official release.