NASA announced the launch of two scientific missions that will aim to study the dynamics of the Sun and the connection of the Earth with its stars and the constantly changing space environment. The Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) and HelioSwarm missions will provide a “deeper view” of the cosmos and critical information to help safeguard astronauts, satellites, and communication signals like GPS.

NASA’s Thomas Zurbuchen noted that the “MUSE and HelioSwarm mission will provide a new and deeper perspective on the solar atmosphere and space weather,” offering a “unique perspective” on the “mysteries” of the Sun.

Delving into the cosmos

According to information from the US space agency, the MUSE mission will make it easier for scientists to understand the forces that stimulate the “heating of the solar corona and the eruptions in that outer region that are the basis of space weather.” Through this mission it will be possible to observe the extreme ultraviolet radiation of the Sun and capture images with better resolution of the solar transition region and the corona.

The HelioSwarm mission will allow the first multiscale measurements in space of fluctuations in the magnetic field and movements of the solar wind known as solar wind turbulence.  In order to study the turbulence of the solar wind, it is necessary to take measurements of large areas simultaneously and from different points in space, which is why the HelioSwarm mission is designed as a central spacecraft and eight small satellites in joint orbit.

According to Peg Luce, deputy director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, “the technical innovation of HelioSwarm’s small satellites operating together as a constellation provides the unique ability to investigate turbulence and its evolution in the solar wind.”

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Source: primicias.ec

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The Democratic Support and Electoral Coordination Group of the European Parliament has sanctioned the MEP of Izquierda Unida, Manu Pineda, and that of Podemos, Idoia Villanueva, for breaking the rules of electoral missions in the elections in Ecuador by presenting themselves as international observers on the sidelines of the Eurochamber.

According to a letter from the co-presidents of the group in the European Parliament for support for democracy and electoral coordination, to which Europa Press had access, the behavior of both violates the rules of the European Parliament and international standards and the regulations apply to them regarding participation in observation missions.

In the case of Pineda, he is excluded until the end of 2021 from participating in any parliamentary observation delegation and he is advised that if he is involved in a similar situation, he will be suspended for the rest of the legislature. The IU MEP traveled to Venezuela last December in the electoral context and in February served as an observer and issued judgments on the elections in Ecuador.

For its part, the European Parliament reprimands Villanueva, secretary of Internacional de Podemos, for giving interviews to Ecuadorian television in relation to an international mission in the country in those elections and for appearing as an “international observer” during her speech. In this sense, she has been warned that another similar situation will imply an exclusion from future missions.

The letter from the co-chairs David McAllister and Tomas Tobé emphasizes that the code of conduct for the members of the observation missions, which both Spanish MEPs broke, guarantees that the activities in support of democracy carried out by the European Parliament are applied impartially.

In February they already warned in another letter that “no” MEP had received the mandate to observe or comment on the electoral process in Ecuador “on behalf of the European Parliament” and indicated that if anyone decided to travel “he will do so in his own capacity.”

Source: dpa

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