NASA's recently-funded Small-Explorer (SMEX) mission, PUNCH (Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere), is targeted to launch in 2022. Sarah Gibson, interim director of the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), is coordinating the mission’s innovative science efforts.
Seeker, an American digital media network and content publisher, interviewed HAO's space scientist, Delores Knipp, in July 2019. The presentation is titled "How Earth's Magnetic Field Twists and Buckles During Solar Storms." Dr. Knipp uncovered a war mystery that is connected to a major solor storm event in July 1972.
Following its long history of solar eclipse field expeditions, the High Altitude Observatory currently has a team deployed in Cerro Tololo, Chile to conduct solar physics research. On July 2, a total solar eclipse will be visible in South America, fortuitously passing over the NSF's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
Determining the state of the corona prior to coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is crucial to understanding and ultimately predicting solar eruptions.
The Sun Today is a single-page website dedicated to displaying the most recent movies from MLSO and other solar instruments. It is designed to display best on an HD display, but will scale properly for mobile devices. Set it as your home page and learn more about...The Sun Today!
The Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) satellite was launched in 1980 aboard a NASA Delta rocket. Among SMM's primary science objectives was the study of the dynamics of solar flares and the study of solar magnetic fields associated with the flare phenomenon.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 12/05/2019 - 2:00pm | Chau, Jorge | HAO Colloquium - Jorge Chau, Leibniz Instiute for Atmospheric Physics |
| 03/18/2020 - 2:00pm | Kamalabadi, Farzad | HAO Colloquium - Farzad Kamalabadi, Univ. of Illinois |
| 11/13/2019 - 2:00pm | Lacatus, Dana | HAO Colloquium - Dana Lacatus, HAO |
| 12/18/2019 - 2:00pm | Mabie, Justin | HAO Colloquium - Justin Mabie, CU/NOAA |
| 11/20/2019 - 2:00pm | Paraschiv, Alin | HAO Colloquium - Alin Paraschiv, NSO |
