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- Dipankar Banerjee, an Indian solar physicist from Indian Institute of Astrophysics has been selected as a Co-Investigator of PUNCH mission by NASA.
- PUNCH stands for “Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere”.
- It will image regions beyond the Sun’s outer corona.
- It will image and track the solar wind and the coronal mass ejections.
- The coronal mass ejections can affect and drive space weather events near the Earth.
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