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Solar-C is a mission designed to investigate the magnetic activities of
the Sun, focusing on the heating and dynamical phenomena of the
chromosphere and corona, and to develop an algorithm for predicting
short and long term solar evolution. For this purpose, three dedicated
instruments aboard Solar-C; the Solar UV-Vis-IR Telescope (SUVIT), the
EUV Spectroscopic Telescope (EUVST) and the High Resolution Coronal
Imager (HCI), jointly observe the entire visible solar atmosphere with
essentially the same high spatial resolution (0.1 - 0.3 arcsec),
performing high resolution spectroscopic measurements over all
atmospheric regions and spectro-polarimetric measurements from the
photosphere through the upper chromosphere. In addition, Solar-C will
contribute to our understanding on the influence of the Sun-Earth
environments with synergetic wide-field observations from ground-based
and other space missions. Some leading science objectives and the
mission concept, including designs of the three instruments are
presented. |
