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Solar Probe Plus instrument AO on the street December 3

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is releasing a NASA Announcement of Opportunity (NNH10ZDA002O), Solar Probe Plus Investigations. This AO solicits Principal Investigator (PI)-led instrument science investigations and Observatory Scientist investigations for the Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission. NASA expects to select sufficient instrument science investigations to address the Solar Probe Plus mission science objectives; NASA expects to select one Observatory Scientist investigation. All proposed investigations must describe a science investigation with goals and objectives that address the Solar Probe Plus mission science objectives.

Participation is open to all categories of organizations (U.S. and non-U.S), including educational, industrial, and not-for-profit organizations, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), NASA Centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and other Government agencies. This solicitation will be open from December 3, 2009, through March 26, 2010. Upon the release date, the full text of the AO and all appendices will be available electronically at NSPIRES. A preproposal conference will be held in the Washington, DC, area; see the mission library site for details.

Direct questions specifically regarding this solicitation to Dr. Madhulika Guhathakurta, Solar Probe Plus Program Scientist, Heliophysics Division, Science Mission Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC 20546; Tel.: (202) 358-1992; E-mail: Madhulika.Guhathakurta@nasa.gov, subject = SOLAR PROBE PLUS AO.

Current Solar Images

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Click for for the latest ground- and space-based solar images in the SDAC archives.

Click for GIF representations of these images via anonymous ftp.

Living With a Star TR&T update

Amendment 11 to ROSES-09 describes a new research area for LWS TR&T, and new requirements for Focused Science Topics proposals.

SolarMonitor hosted at the SDAC

[Thumbnail view of ARM latest events page] [blank filler space] [RSS XML icon] solarmonitor.org now features RSS feeds with active region closeups.

SolarMonitor, the Website formerly known as the Active Region Monitor, offers up-to-date information on solar activity, including images, flare locations, flare predictions, and links to the LMSAL "last events" page, which gives a graphic view of solar and heliospheric activity through soft X-ray, energetic proton, and solar wind data.

Sam Freeland of LMSAL has generated an archive of "latest events" pages from 2002 to the present, at LMSAL.

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Navigate to Solar Data Online

[SDAC DataFinder rollover icon] Try the SDAC DataFinder for quick access to space solar physics data held at the SDAC.
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SOHO  news
2009 July 22

SOHO status

SOHO is in normal mode, with all instruments operating. To offset the Sunward delta-v imparted during the ESR, the Flight Operations Team performed a stationkeeping maneuver on Sunday, July 19.

Why 1 Tbyte/day doesn't scare us

Some people appear to think that the expected Solar Dynamics Observatory downlink rate of 1 Terabyte (Tbyte) = 1000 Gbyte a day is lot of data. Since SDO won't be launched until late 2007 at the earliest, we don't. See why.

TRACE

Twin comets race to fiery death!

....or words to that effect: see two Kreutz sungrazers barrel toward the LASCO occulting disks, and then watch the CME's and a spectacular eruptive prominence. Check out the:

SOHO EIT eruptive prominence of the week

{Esthetically pleasing 30.4 nm image of the Sun with an eruptive prominence}
Click on the thumbnail image for a full-size (1024 x 1024) image of the Sun in He II 304 Å showing a large, eruptive prominence.

Image taken 2009 January 15 at 13:19 UT.

Wondering how big these events are relative to the earth?

[Thumbnail image of Sun, eruptive prominence, and earth for size comparison] Click on the thumbnail for an
enlarged view of how the earth
compares in size to a He II 304 Å
eruptive prominence.

1999 March 6 08:08 - 12:48 UT

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Click on any of the movie icons to watch the time-lapse movie.

Bonus movie: click on this [GIF movie icon] icon for an MPEG movie of a twisting eruption of the south polar crown filament on 1999 March 5.

Credit: The SOHO-EIT Consortium: SOHO is an ESA-NASA program of international cooperation.

{Research fuel} Solar research opportunities

Find links here to descriptions of current and upcoming NASA research programs in solar physics and related fields and announcements of selections.

Recent news

[New]Last updated: 2009 May 13

  • The ROSES- 2009 NASA Research Announcement includes several areas relevant to solar and heliospheric science. For details, see our Solar Research Opportunities page.

    [Lots of disks] Solar data sources

    Links to online solar data sets, at the SDAC and at other sites

    [Thumbnail image of STEREO launch] STEREO

    See the STEREO "What's new?" page for current mission status.

    [Thumbnail image of Hinode spacecraft] Hinode

    {Thumbnail image of total solar eclipse} Eclipses

    The NASA Eclipse Website now serves all NASA's eclipse-related resources, including the NASA Eclipse Bulletins.

    [New]Eclipse Bulletin for the total solar eclipse of 2008 August 1

    {Famous scientists} Education and outreach resources

    Links to solar physics Web resources of general interest.

    {Tiny thumbnail of early ESA SOHO poster} SOHO

    Access the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) WWW pages.

    Access the SOHO anonymous ftp directories.

    The MEDOC, the SOHO Multi-Experiment Data and Operations Center at the Université de Paris-Sud in Orsay, France has its own Web pages.

    The EIT home page is now available.

    Solar links

    Other solar Web resources, including professional societies (AAS, SPD, AGU) and research sites

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