| STEREO (Solar TErrestrial
RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA's
Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). This two-year
mission will employ two nearly identical space-based observatories
- one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing
behind - to provide the first-ever stereoscopic measurements
to study the Sun and the nature of its coronal mass ejections,
or CMEs. |
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| STEREO's scientific objectives
are to: |
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Understand the causes and
mechanisms of coronal mass ejection (CME) initiation. |
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Characterize the propagation
of CMEs through the heliosphere. |
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Discover the mechanisms
and sites of energetic particle acceleration in the low corona
and the interplanetary medium. |
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Improve the determination
of the structure of the ambient solar wind. |
