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TRACE

(Transition Region and Coronal Explorer, Explorer 73)
(former solar observing satellite)

TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer) was a NASA Small Explorer Program (SMEX) satellite launched in 1998, operational until 2010 to investigate the solar magnetic field by observing the fine structure of the corona from visible light to far ultraviolet.


(telescope,solar,spacecraft,NASA,Sun,visible light,ultraviolet,magnetism,past,corona)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRACE
https://sdowww.lmsal.com/TRACE/
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1998-020A
https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/trace
https://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/solar/trace/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994ESASP.373..375T/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994SSRv...70..119S/abstract
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=5cf6df941d10bd8762943b4ffb142cadb05bcd82

Referenced by pages:
solar physics
solar telescope

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