Three Instruments Will Help Measure the Solar Wind on the DSCOVR Mission (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Three Instruments Will Help Measure the Solar Wind on the DSCOVR Mission

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Three instruments will help measure the solar wind on the DSCOVR mission: (shown from left to right), the Faraday cup to monitor the speed and direction of positively-charged solar wind particles, the electron spectrometer to monitor electrons, and a magnetometer to measure magnetic fields.

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