Concept information
Preferred term
ISS-SOLAR
Definition
- The SOLAR monitoring observatory (SOLAR) was an ESA science observatory mounted externally on the Columbus Laboratory, a module of the International Space Station. The primary goal of SOLAR is the (quasi-) continuous measurement of the solar "constant" in order to separate solar effects from human influence on climatology (in progress). SOLAR was launched on February 2008 aboard STS-122. It was originally composed of three scientific instruments: SOVIM (Solar Variability and Irradiance Monitor), SOLSPEC (Solar Spectral Irradiance Measurements), and SolACES. SOLSPEC and SolACES provided detailed measurements of the Sun's spectral irradiance from April 2008 to mid-February 2017 from 16 nm to 3 microns. Schmidtke, G., Fröhlich, C., Thuillier, G., ISS-SOLAR: Total (TSI) and spectral (SSI) irradiance measurements, Adv. Space Res., 37, 2, 255-264, 2006; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2005.01.009 (en)
Broader concept
- Heliophysics (en)
URI
https://data.esa.int/esado/missionISSSOLAR
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