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| space telescopes | |
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taken by TRACE]] TRACE, or the '''Transition Region and Coronal Explorer''' is a NASA Space Telescope designed to investigate the connections between fine-scale magnetic fields and the associated plasma structures on the Sun by providing high resolution images and observation of the Solar Photosphere and transition region to the Corona . The Satellite , launched in April 1998 , has a 30 Cm aperture and 1024 x 1024 CCD detector giving an 8.5 Arc Minute Field Of View . The telescope is designed to take Correlated images in a range of wavelengths from Visible Light , through the Lyman Alpha Line to far Ultraviolet . The different wavelength Passband s correspond to Plasma emission temperatures from 4,000 to 4,000,000 K . TRACE is a SMEX or Small Explorer mission. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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