Category: Physics
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High-energy Solar Particles to be Measured with New Instrument
NASA Goddard is the location of the new High-energy Ion Telescope (HIT), a solar energetic particle (SEP) detector. Critical to exploring our solar neighborhood with NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), messages are decoded in particles from the Sun and beyond our cosmic shield according to Brookhaven National Laboratory. Solar energetic particles, or SEPs,…