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- NASA has approved two heliophysics missions to explore the Sun and the system that drives space weather near Earth.
- Together, NASA’s contribution to the following will help in understanding the Sun and Earth as an interconnected system,
- Extreme Ultraviolet High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope Epsilon Mission (EUVST) and
- Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE).
EUVST
- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) leads the EUVST Epsilon Mission (Solar-C EUVST Mission), along with other partners.
- It is targeted for launch in 2026.
- It is a solar telescope.
EZIE
- It is to be launched in 2024.
- It will study electric currents in Earth’s atmosphere linking aurora to Earth’s magnetosphere.
- The magnetosphere responds to solar activity and other factors.
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