Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) is a planned NASA mission to study the Sun. It is a Medium-Class Explorers mission of the Explorers Program, planned to be launched in 2027. It will study the causes of coronal heating and instability, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, and study basic plasma properties of the corona. The PI of the mission is Bart De Pontieu of the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center of Palo Alto, California.[1][2] The mission passed a critical mission review on August 21, 2024.[3]
MUSE will have a multi-slit spectrograph (with narrow bands at 171Å, 284Å, and 108Å) and a context imager (with two passbands at 195Å and 304Å),[4] which have the capability to see details of the solar atmosphere down to 200 miles above the photosphere.[3][5]
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- ^ "New Sun Missions to Help NASA Better Understand Earth-Sun Environment - NASA". NASA. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
- ^ a b "NASA's MUSE Mission Passes Key Milestone – MUSE". blogs.nasa.gov. 27 August 2024. Retrieved 31 October 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ De Pontieu, Bart; Cheung, Mark (1 October 2022). The MUlti-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE). The Third Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS), held 8-11 August, 2022 in Bellevue/Seattle, WA. Bulletin of the AAS. Vol. 54.
- ^ "Looking Directly into the Sun with MUSE". Lockheed Martin. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
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