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NASA's solar maximum mission: A look at a new SunAs part of the ongoing process of trying to understand the physical processes at work in the Sun, the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) spacecraft was launched on February 14, 1980, near the height of the solar cycle, to enable the solar physics community to examine, in more physically meaningful detail than ever before, the most violent aspect of solar activity: flares. The scientific products of SMM are substantial: by 1986, over 400 papers based on SMM observations and their interpretations had appeared in scientific journals. More important than such numerical measures of success is the significance of the science that has come from SMM. The following topics, the Sun as a star, solar flares, and the active solar atmosphere, as well as other findings of SMM investigators are described. The instruments on the SMM are also described.
Document ID
19870020812
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Gurman, Joseph B. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
September 5, 2013
Publication Date
June 1, 1987
Subject Category
Solar Physics
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.15:89539
NASA-TM-89539
Report Number: NAS 1.15:89539
Report Number: NASA-TM-89539
Accession Number
87N30245
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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