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The History of Cosmic Ray Studies
2000 - 2009
- 2001
- Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) was launched to measure the
temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation over the full
sky with unprecedented accuracy.
More about MAP...
- 2001
- Genesis spacecraft was launched on a mission to collect solar wind
samples.
More about
Genesis...
- 2001
- Launch of the Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics cna
Dynamics (TIMED) mission to study the influence of the Sun and humans
on the thermosphere/ionosphere and mesosphere.
More about TIMED...
- 2002
- Launch of the Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager
(RHESSI) spacecraft to study solar flares
More about RHESSI...
- 2002
- A massive NASA balloon launched from Lynn Lake, Manitoba carrying
a solar and heliospheric experiment called Low Energy Electrons (LEE)
and establishing a new record for balloon volume: 60 million cubic
feet.
- 2003
- The SOlar Radiation and CLimate Experiment (SORCE) was launched to
measure solar irradiance and the solar spectrum.
More about SORCE...
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