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NASA has said that for two heliophysics missions to study the Sun and they will also monitor the system that drives space weather near Earth. According to a report by NASA, the Epsilon Mission High-Throughput Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Telescope (EUVUST) and Electroject Zeeman Imaging Explorere (EZIE) will help scientists understand the Sun and Earth as an interconnected system. Scientists believe that the physics that directs solar winds and solar explosions in the future they would help predict events, which may affect human technology as well as space explorers.
From the orbit of the International Space Station 269 miles above the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia, this night photograph captures the aurora australis, or “southern lights.” Russia’s Soyuz MS-12 crew is in the foreground and Progress 72 is refurbishing a boat in the foreground.
Credits: NASA
The EUVST Mission is led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), in partnership with other international organizations. EUVST is aiming for a launch date in 2026. It is a solar telescope that will study how the solar atmosphere emits the solar wind and drives an explosion of solar products.
NASA’s hardware contributions to the mission include an intensive UV detector and support electronics, spectrograph components, a directional telescope, software and a slip-jaw imaging system to provide context for the spectrographic measurement. .
NASA’s budget for the entire mission is $ 55 million and Harry Warren is the lead investigator for NASA’s contribution to EUVST at the U.S. marine research laboratory in Washington.
The EZIE, in turn, studies electric currents in the Earth’s atmosphere connecting aurora to the Earth’s magnetosphere. The total budget for the EZIE mission is $ 53.3 million while the lead investigator for the mission is Jeng-Hwa (Sam) Yee at the Johns Hopkins University applied physics laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
Speaking about the new missions, Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said they are excited to add the new missions to the growing fleet of satellite satellites. Sun-Earth system study, adding that it is delighted to follow up the success of the Yohkok and Hinode solar science missions.