NASA STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) Data Products

[Source: NASA/GSFC Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) home page, stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). This two-year mission will employ two nearly identical space-based observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind - to provide the first-ever stereoscopic measurements to study the Sun and the nature of its coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.

STEREO's scientific objectives are to: - Understand the causes and mechanisms of coronal mass ejection (CME) initiation. - Characterize the propagation of CMEs through the heliosphere. - Discover the mechanisms and sites of energetic particle acceleration in the low corona and the interplanetary medium. - Improve the determination of the structure of the ambient solar wind. Please link to the STEREO project website for additional information: stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Please link to the STEREO Science Center to access STEREO data: stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/