NASA's proposed Solar Stereo Mission.
(Courtesy of NASA and Southwest Research Institute
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- The idea behind the Solar Stereo Mission is to move away from our traditional vantage point near the Earth and study the Sun with a cluster of telescopes (including coronagraphs, xray and EUV imagers) at several locations simultaneously.
- This data would be combined with magnetograms and other data from ground-based or low-Earth-orbit instruments.
- With this configuration of instruments, both the buildup of magnetic energy and the liftoff and trajectory of Earth-bound CMEs could be studied in 3 dimensions.
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