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PUNCH mission
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- NASA’s PUNCH mission (2025) revealed solar wind dynamics.
- PUNCH stands for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere.
- It studies the solar corona and solar wind as a single, connected system.
- The mission captures detailed images of solar wind, making invisible phenomena visible.
- Solar wind consists of charged particles emitted from the Sun’s outer atmosphere.
- PUNCH operates during the ongoing solar maximum, a phase of high solar activity.
- This phase includes increased sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections.
- The mission helps improve forecasting of space weather and its effects on Earth.
- Solar storms can disrupt satellites, GPS, power grids, and communication systems.
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