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- UVCS
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- The primary scientific objectives of the UVCS instrument are:
- ∑ To investigate the physical processes for accelerating the solar
- wind,
- ∑ To investigate the physical processes for heating the extended
- coronal plasma,
- ∑ To locate and characterize coronal sources of the solar wind,
- ∑ To investigate coronal phenomena that establish the plasma
- properties of the solar wind,
- ∑ To determine the plasma properties of coronal mass ejections
- (CMEs) near the Sun, and
- ∑ To investigate physical processes for determining the
- characteristics of CMEs.
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- An understanding of the physical processes that control solar wind acceleration contributes to our understanding of
- mass loss in other stars.
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