UNH to analyze 'bellwether' solar event data from European satellite
Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 16:41
in Astronomy & Space
When the sun launched a moderate, or M-class, solar flare May 17, 2012, it was still one of the largest eruptions seen since late January when our star began to rouse from an anomalously long quiet period. But the event was not just an additional solar wake-up call; it produced something that has the solar physics community puzzled and scientists from the University of New Hampshire poised to analyze a singular dataset gathered during the event by a European satellite called PAMELA short for Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics.