A very small instrument has a big job ahead of it: measuring all Earth-directed energy coming from the Sun and helping scientists understand how that energy influences our planet’s severe weather, ...

NASA's Solar Orbiter is set to launch into space on Sunday, February 9 at 11:03 p.m Eastern. And it packs ten powerful scientific instruments on board that will shed unprecedented light on our Sun.

In this pv magazine Webinar, organized in partnership with OTT HydroMet, the home to solar and meteorology brands such as Kipp & Zonen and Lufft, we’ll explore the main challenges affecting the ...

We live on a solar-powered planet. As we wake up in the morning, the Sun peeks over the horizon to shed light on us, blanket us with warmth and provide cues to start our day. At the same time, our Sun ...

Fig. 1: Measurement setup of first FPI showing the two glass plates with a diameter of 0.3 m and the gap between them which is about 0.5 mm wide and is tuned to sub-nanometer accuracy in order to ...

The SXDUs consist of X-ray Detector Modules (XDMs), analog electronic units (AEUs), a data processing unit (DPU), and a power supply unit (PSU). Collimators are positioned in front of the XDMs to ...

NASA has selected two instruments led by Southwest Research Institute to measure energetic particles for the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft, slated to launch by 2018. This first-ever journey into the Sun ...

On Thursday, NASA revealed the first instruments it plans to ship off to the future Gateway outpost that'll work to support the Artemis lunar missions. NASA refers to the instruments as 'scientific ...

Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste The World’s Last Flock of Wild Whooping Cranes Gets More Living Space China’s Clean Energy Investments Abroad Are ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists launched the second Strontium Iodide Radiation Instrument (SIRI-2) instrument in December 2021 onboard Space Test Program (STP) Sat-6. SIRI-2, a gamma-ray ...