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DSCOVR  

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  • [Text Source: NOAA NESDIS] The Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, will maintain the nation's real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of NOAA's space weather alerts and forecasts. Without timely and accurate warnings, space weather events like the geomagnetic storms caused by changes in solar wind have the potential to disrupt nearly every major public infrastructure system, including power grids, telecommunications, aviation and GPS. DSCOVR will succeed NASA's Advanced Composition Explore's (ACE) role in supporting solar wind alerts and warnings from the L1 orbit, the neutral gravity point between the Earth and sun approximately one million miles from Earth. L1 is a good position from which to monitor the sun, because the constant stream of particles from the sun (the solar wind) reaches L1 about an hour before reaching Earth. More Information: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/dscovr-deep-space-climate-observatory Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: DSCOVR Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Solar/Space Observation Satellites Short_Name: DSCOVR Long_Name: Deep Space Climate Observatory End_Group Creation_Date: 2014-05-07 Online_Resource: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/dscovr-deep-space-climate-observ Online_Resource: https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov Online_Resource: https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/dscovr/dscovr_table Group: Platform_Logistics Primary_Sponsor: NOAA End_Group End_Group (en)

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  • 2014-05-07 08:41:20.0 [128.183.164.42] Insert Concept add broader relation (DSCOVR [d9cc74c9-34f5-48a4-a982-e4c6f8a5171c,106359] - Solar/Space Observation Satellites [8e8b7689-0a8e-47a4-9c68-5f6a207104d5,73505]);
  • 2014-05-07 08:43:34.0 [128.183.164.42] added platform insert AltLabel (id: null text: DEEP SPACE CLIMATE OBSERVATORY language code: en); insert Definition (id: null text: The primary operations objective of the DSCOVR mission is to provide solar wind thermal plasma and magnetic field measurements to enable space weather forecasting by NOAA. Secondary science objectives are to image the Sun lit disk of Earth in 10 spectral bands with a spatial resolution of 12 km or better, to determine ozone, aerosol, cloud cover, cloud height, vegetation, and leaf area indices and to measure the Earth reflected irradiance in the wavelength range of 0.2 - 100 microns. language code: en);
  • 2014-05-07 08:52:00.0 [128.183.164.42] added platform update AltLabel (Deep Space Climate Observatory);
  • 2019-10-01 12:34:57.0 [sritz] update Definition ([Text Source: NOAA NESDIS] The Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, will maintain the nation's real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of NOAA's space weather alerts and forecasts. Without timely and accurate warnings, space weather events like the geomagnetic storms caused by changes in solar wind have the potential to disrupt nearly every major public infrastructure system, including power grids, telecommunications, aviation and GPS. DSCOVR will succeed NASA's Advanced Composition Explore's (ACE) role in supporting solar wind alerts and warnings from the L1 orbit, the neutral gravity point between the Earth and sun approximately one million miles from Earth. L1 is a good position from which to monitor the sun, because the constant stream of particles from the sun (the solar wind) reaches L1 about an hour before reaching Earth. More Information: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/dscovr-deep-space-climate-observatory Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: DSCOVR Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Solar/Space Observation Satellites Short_Name: DSCOVR Long_Name: Deep Space Climate Observatory End_Group Creation_Date: 2014-05-07 Online_Resource: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/dscovr-deep-space-climate-observ Online_Resource: https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov Online_Resource: https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/dscovr/dscovr_table Group: Platform_Logistics Primary_Sponsor: NOAA End_Group End_Group); delete Resource (null);

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/d9cc74c9-34f5-48a4-a982-e4c6f8a5171c

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