U.S.-Mexico Cooperative Research: A Viper-Class Sounding Rocket Experiment to Observe the June 30, 1992 Total Solar Eclipse

这一美国-墨西哥奖项将有助于支持由佛罗里达理工学院的Nebil Misconi教授和墨西哥自治大学(UNAM)的Alfonso Serrano教授领导的小组之间的联合研究。合作的目的是进行关于太阳周围环境的研究。在这项研究的目标中，研究人员打算获得有关日冕亮度的信息，并验证太阳周围是否有尘环或尘埃壳。研究人员的实验将包括从南大西洋发射一枚毒蛇级探空火箭来观测即将到来的(1992年6月30日)日全食。这是本世纪持续时间最长的日全食之一。火箭将搭载由美国国际和平研究所制造的科学仪器，其中包括来自墨西哥的各种部件。日食的数据将被传输到地面，并记录在存储设备上，供美国海军恢复。该实验将获得关于围绕太阳运行的尘埃颗粒的动力学以及尘埃与太阳风相互作用的具体信息。这些信息将有助于增加我们对太阳和其他恒星周围环境的了解。

This U.S.-Mexico award will help to support joint research between groups headed by Prof. Nebil Misconi of the Florida Institute of Technology and Prof. Alfonso Serrano of the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, (UNAM) in Mexico. The purpose of the collaboration is to pursue studies concerning the environment around the sun. Among the objectives of the research, the investigators intend to obtain information on the brightness of the solar corona and verify whether the sun has dust rings or a dust shell around it. The investigators' experiment will include the launching of a Viper-Class Sounding Rocket from the South Atlantic Ocean to observe the forthcoming (June 30, 1992) total solar eclipse. This is one of the longest duration total eclipses of the sun in this century. The rocket will carry scientific instruments built by the U.S. PI with various components from Mexico. Data from the eclipse will be transmitted to the ground and recorded on a memory device for recovery by the U.S. Navy. The experiment will obtain specific information on the dynamics of the dust particles orbiting the sun and the interaction of the dust with the solar wind. This information will help to increase our understanding of the environment around the sun and other stars.