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Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SUNRISE) mission
April 2 , 2020
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- The NASA announced SUNRISE mission is to study about how sun creates Giant Solar Particle Storms.
- Studying the solar storms, the mission aims to understand the working of the solar system.
- It aims to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms – known as solar particle storms – into planetary space.
- The study will also aid future astronauts travelling to Mars and protect them from solar storms.
- The mission is to study sun’s spectrum.
- This is important as sun’s spectrum cannot be studied from the earth due to the ionosphere.
- It is an array of six CubeSats operating as one very large radio telescope.
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