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Punch Mission

June 30 , 2019 1848 days 841 0
  • 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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