- NASA’s Codex probe captured the outer atmosphere of the Sun, the images of the corona, which displays new aspects of its ugly, uneven flow.
- Codex instrument located at the International Space Station is a carrongraph – a scientific device that makes an artificial eclipse with a physical disc – which measures solar air speed and temperature using special filters.
- These will help scientists to improve the model of the space season and understand the effects of the Sun on Earth.
Scientists analyzing data of NASA’s Codex (coronal diagnostic experiment) have successfully evaluated the first images of the instrument, which reveals the speed and temperature of the material flowing from the sun. The images shared at a press event on Tuesday at the American Astronomical Society meeting at Aincorn, Alaska, paint the outer environment of the Sun, or corona, or corona, there is a homogeneous, stable flow of materials, but a field with sputtering gests of hot plasma. These pictures will help scientists to improve their understanding of how the Sun affects Earth and our technology in space.
“We didn’t really have the ability to perform such science in Greenbelt, Greenbelt, Maryland’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Codex’s leading investigator,” “We didn’t really have the ability to do such science,” “The right type of filter, correct size instrumentation – all the right things have fallen in the place. All the new observations have fallen in the place. Very interesting science is to be done. “
NASA’s Codex is a solar corongraph, which is often employed to block the sun’s faint corona, or to study the external environment by blocking the sun’s bright face. This device, which is installed at the international space station, creates an artificial eclipse using a series of circular pieces of materials called ocultting discs at the end of a long telescope. The secret discs are about the size of a tennis ball and are conducted in place by three metal weapons.
Scientists often use coronagraph to study visible light from corona, such as dynamic characteristics, such as solar storms, which shape the weather in space, potentially affect the Earth and beyond it.
“Codex Instrument is doing something new,” said Numark. “Previous corongraph experiments have measured the density of the material in the corona, but the Codex is gradually measuring the temperature and speed of the material in different solar air flowing from the sun.”
These new measurements allow scientists to better mark the energy at the source of solar air.
The Codex Instrument uses four narrow-band filters-two to the papman and two-two-for-wind data for speed to capture. “By comparing the brightness of images in each of these filters, we can explain the temperature and speed of the coronal solar air,” Numark said.
Understanding solar wind speed and temperature helps scientists to create a more accurate picture of the sun, which is necessary to modeling and predict the behavior of the sun.
“Codex instrument will affect the space weather modeling by providing obstacles for the modeler to use in future,” Numeca said. “We are excited for the time to come.”
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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Codex NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) have a collaboration with additional contribution from Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF).
