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PROBA2 Holiday Countdown Calendar

Thu, 11/28/2013 - 21:47 — Matthew West

The PROBA2 team is proud to present the PROBA2 Holiday Countdown Calendar! One day at a time you will discover highlights of the PROBA2 satellite and the Sun!

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PROBA2 waits for Comet ISON

Thu, 11/28/2013 - 08:35 — Dan Seaton

In just a few hours, Comet ISON will whip past the surface of the sun at hundreds of kilometers per second, and PROBA2 is waiting to capture its passage through perihelion.

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SWAP observes three partial solar eclipses

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 11:44 — Matthew West

Three partial solar eclipses were observed by PROBA-2 as it moved in and out of the Moon’s shadow during the 03-Nov-2013 ‘hybrid’ solar eclipse.

A hybrid eclipse is comprised of a total solar eclipse and an ‘annular eclipse’, depending on an observer’s viewing location on Earth.

During a total solar eclipse, the Moon moves between the Sun and the Earth, their alignment and separation are such that the much closer Moon appears large enough to block out the light from the much more distant Sun.

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PROBA2 Guest Investigator 4th Call Results

Wed, 10/02/2013 - 12:48 — Matthew West

We are pleased to announce that the PROBA2 Science Working Team has selected 7 proposals for the 2013 Guest Investigator Program.

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DSLP ionospheric on-line data archive

Mon, 09/30/2013 - 17:38 — Matthew West

The Dual Segmented Langmuir Probe (DSLP) experiment on board PROBA2 operates in combination with SWAP and LYRA providing remote observations of solar activity with direct in-situ measurements of basic plasma properties in the dawn and dusk sectors of the upper terrestrial ionosphere.

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SWAP follows and catches a Prominence Eruption

Mon, 07/29/2013 - 09:57 — Erik Pylyser

Over a period of five days, from Wednesday 24th 13:05 until Monday 29th 13:45, PROBA2 made off-point observations (not Sun centered) to allow the SWAP imager to observe a large on-disk filament. The filament evolved towards the West limb and it was estimated to reach the limb on Friday/Saturday.

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Guest investigator Muzhou Lu presents SWAP data at gallery

Wed, 07/10/2013 - 12:13 — Matthew West

In May 2013 PROBA2 Guest Investigator Muzhou Lu, an undergraduate Astrophysics and Studio Art student at Williams College in Massachusetts, in the United States, recently presented SWAP data as part of an art installation at the Williams College Museum of Art.

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Fourth Call for PROBA2 Guest Investigators

Wed, 06/26/2013 - 12:31 — Dan Seaton

The PROBA2 PI-team welcomes research proposals for the Fourth round of its Guest Investigator program for research based on SWAP and LYRA data analysis, by scientists outside the SWAP and LYRA PI-teams. We encourage in particular young post-docs and PhD students to apply, although more senior guest investigator's proposals are welcome also. In this third round we anticipate funding for around six guest investigators who will visit the the PROBA2 Science Center at the Royal Observatory of Belgium between October 2013 and June 2014.