Ultraviolet Instruments
EVE-SDO
[Source: Extreme ultraviolet Variabilty Experiment (EVE) team home page, http://lasp.colorado.edu/eve/ ] The Extreme ultraviolet Variabilty Experiment (EVE) is designed to measure the solar extreme ultraviolet (EUV) irradiance. The EUV radiation includes the 0.1-105 nm range, which provides the majority of the energy for heating Earth's thermosphere and creating Earth's ionosphere (ionized plasma). This wide spectral range requies the use of multiple channels. Some key requirements for EVE are to measure the solar EUV irradiance spectrum with 0.1 nm spectral resolution and with 20 sec cadence. These drive the EVE design to include grating spectrographs with array detectors so that all EUV wavelengths can be measured simultaneously. Another key requirement for EVE is to measure the EUV radiation with an accuracy of 25% or better, thus on-board calibration channels are included to go with underflight calibration experiments to be conducted during the SDO mission. Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: EVE-SDO Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Solar/Space Observing Instruments Instrument_Class: Ultraviolet Instruments Short_Name: EVE-SDO Long_Name: Extreme ultraviolet Variability Experiment on Solar Dynamics Observatory End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: SDO End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Ultraviolet Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 0.1 nm -105 nm End_Group Online_Resource: http://lasp.colorado.edu/eve/ Online_Resource: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/instruments.php Sample_Image: http://lasp.colorado.edu/eve/images/instrument/EVE_FrontOpen_Labels_sm.jpg Creation_Date: 2009-04-24 Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Owner: USA/NASA End_Group End_Group