US space agency NASA has announced a SunRISE research mission to study the mysterious phenomenon of solar particle storms.
About the Mission
Under the mission, called Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE), NASA will use a constellation of six solar powered satellites the size of toaster ovens, called CubeSats, to collect data on low-frequency emissions from the sun.
The mission will cost $62.6million and is scheduled to launch no earlier than July 1, 2023.
The mission will be organized by Justin Kasper from the University of Michigan and overseen by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
What is Solar Particle Storm?
Solar particle storms occur when large streams of protons are ejected from the surface of the sun, which have enough energy to penetrate the Earth’s magnetosphere.
