Collaborative Research: Citizen CATE Next-Generation 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Experiment, — NSF Award to Southwest Research Instit
Despite well over 100 years of scientific observation, many fundamental questions about the nature of the solar corona remain unanswered. The corona is permeated by complex, highly structured and intense magnetic fields coupled to hot plasma at temperatures of 1–10 million Kelvin, over 100 times hotter than the underly
| Award title | Collaborative Research: Citizen CATE Next-Generation 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Experiment, |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2511904 |
| Awardee | Southwest Research Institute |
| City | SAN ANTONIO |
| State | TX |
| Amount obligated | $399,696 |
| Principal investigator | Amir Caspi |
| Program | PLANETARY ASTRONOMY |
| Start date | 09/01/2025 |
| Abstract | Despite well over 100 years of scientific observation, many fundamental questions about the nature of the solar corona remain unanswered. The corona is permeated by complex, highly structured and intense magnetic fields coupled to hot plasma at temperatures of 1–10 million Kelvin, over 100 times hotter than the underlying surface, the photosphere. The middle corona mediates almost all the outflow from the Sun to the heliosphere and hosts transitions between the physical regimes of the inner and |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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