NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission will be the first to image the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere, and solar wind together to better understand the sun ...

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A Falcon 9 lifted off from California with the SPHEREx near-infrared observatory, with the PUNCH heliophysics mission flying as a rideshare. During its mission, SPHEREx will complete surveys of ...

The PUNCH mission, which stands for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, could help experts better understand how to forecast such events and how they will affect the Earth.

Article continues below The mission, called PUNCH – which stands for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere – is a collection of four suitcase-sized satellites that will map the Sun's ...