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HESSI: The High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager

How will HESSI work? How does HESSI make an image? How does HESSI detect x rays and gamma rays?
What are HESSI's scientific objectives? HESSI 3D animations The sounds of HESSI imaging
HESSI in a nutshell !! HESSI in a nutshell !! What is a solar flare?

Welcome to NASA Goddard's home page for the
High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI).

HESSI is a NASA Small Explorer
scheduled for launch no earlier than June 20, 2001.

HESSI's primary mission is to explore the basic physics of particle acceleration and explosive energy release in solar flares.
 
 

Link to NASA Home Page

Responsible NASA Official:  Gordon D. Holman

Web Design:  Merrick Berg, Brian Dennis, Gordon Holman, & Gilbert Prevost

Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Physics Branch/ Code 682
Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA
holman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov

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This site last updated June 12, 2001.