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

美国-墨西哥合作研究：观察 1992 年 6 月 30 日日全食的毒蛇级探空火箭实验

• 批准号: 9208257
• 负责人: Nebil Misconi
• 金额: $ 1.47万
• 依托单位: Florida Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-05-01 至 1994-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9208257&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Mexico; Cooperative; Research; Viper

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.

这项美国-墨西哥奖将帮助支持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。这次合作的目的是研究太阳周围的环境。在这项研究的目标中，研究人员打算获得有关太阳日冕亮度的信息，并验证太阳周围是否有尘埃环或尘埃壳。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，以观测即将到来的日全食（1992年6月30日）。这是本世纪持续时间最长的日全食之一。火箭将携带由美国PI制造的科学仪器和来自墨西哥的各种部件。日食的数据将被传输到地面，并记录在一个存储设备上，供美国海军回收。该实验将获得围绕太阳运行的尘埃粒子的动力学以及尘埃与太阳风的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。