PUNCH mission
Four spacecraft, one instrument … imaging almost nothing at all.
PUNCH is a polarizing wide-field imager, distributed across four
orbiting spacecraft, to track space weather (and solar wind) across
the heliosphere. (Non-NASA account for the mission team).
- It's been six months since our "first light" release of science data, and also since the PUNCH Outreach Project observed the (June 3) "Double Diamond" at the iconic Chaco Canyon "curly zia" petroglyph (which appears to be among the oldest human renderings of the solar corona). ☀️🔭🛰️
- Two great tastes that taste great together! ☀️🧪🔭
- Polarization Fireworks | PUNCH mission | WhiteWind blog PUNCH science nugget #24: some cool "fireworks" in our polarized images! #solarcorona ☀️🛰️🔭🧪
- Reposted by PUNCH missionPUNCH @punch-mission.bsky.social found out we are good at comet tracking, even as we calibrate/refine our solar wind imaging pipeline. In the last 3 months, we've tracked 3 notable comets with images every 4 min, around the clock: SWAN, Atlas, and Lemmon. PUNCH data are free to get and use. ☀️🛰️🧪🔭
- We just rolled out v0h of the PUNCH data pipeline. Most of Aug and Sep are now up. By Sunday we should have reprocessed it all. The L2 data include 4-min-cadence images of 3I/Atlas for those who wish to verify it is not an alien spaceship doing maneuvers. 🧪🚀🛰️🔭☀️ punch.space.swri.edu/punch_scienc...
- We continue to refine our data products. The servers are right now reprocessing images for our version 0h data, which will turn up in data repositories over the next few days. Here's a short nugget on how we're working toward routine 0.1% photometric precision. ☀️🧪🔭🛰️ (whtwnd.com/punch-missio...)
- Learn by doing! Come manipulate PUNCH data at our online science meeting this Thursday! ☀️🛰️ Deets at the PUNCH website (punch.space.swri.edu).
- New nugget from PUNCH today: sometimes, adding noise to data makes the data better. ☀️🧪🔭🛰️
- It's been a while, but not because we're idle! We've got lots going on "behind the scenes" at #PUNCH. Here's our latest -- this comet has only been known for a week, but we've been imaging it since mid August! 🧪🛰️🔭☀️
- Looks like we'll be able to help forecast radiation storms in interplanetary space! #spaceweather 🛰️🧪☀️
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