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- LASCO
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- To answer these questions (on the previous page), the LASCO investigation will study the transport of mass,
- momentum, and energy through the corona and into the solar wind, by measuring:
- ∑ Global distributions of key plasma parameters: temperature,
- density, bulk and nonthermal (turbulent) velocities, and direction
- of the magnetic field
- ∑ Time sequences of coronal dynamical events, especially
- processes that occur in coronal mass ejections, and the
- conditions that trigger them
- ∑ The spatial distribution and properties of circumsolar dust
- particles, including those newly released from sungrazing
- comets.
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- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
- R. Howard, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA
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- OTHER INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED:
- Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, Marseille, France
- Max-Planck-Institute f¸r Aeronomie, Lindau Germany
- Space Research Group, School of Physics and Space Research, University of Birmingham, UK
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