";s:4:"text";s:1751:"Solar Orbiter new About Payload SPICE Upcoming Events. All four slits, and different times of exposure were employed in order to check the complete gamut of capabilities of SPICE.
SPICE produces spectroheliograms on a field of view of 8 arcmin. Before reaching this aperture the solar beam is restricted by the heat-shield feed-through baffle, which extends to approximately 30cm ahead of SPICE, and this restricts the angular range of illumination and so also the solar heat load onto the SPICE aperture and door. SWA consortium meeting, 10-11 October, MSSL, UK. MADAWG: 11-13 September, London. SWT #25: 16-17 October 2019, ESTEC . SPICE is one of 10 instruments on board Solar Orbiter. It is a high resolution imaging spectrometer operating at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. SOWG #14: 9-11 July, ESAC. 9-10 February 2020: Solar Orbiter was launch in the night of 9-10 February 2020, from Cape Canaveral, with SPICE onboard. Follow us! Tweets by esa. Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) Further information … View all Meetings . SPICE instrument is a specto-imager which main scientific objective is to characterize the plasma in the solar atmosphere and in the regions where the solar wind originates.
On 21 April, a lengthy sequence of commands was sent to Solar Orbiter to take full spectra in two wavelength bands via one of four narrow slits oriented towards the centre of the Sun’s disc.
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