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TRACE is a single-instrument solar mission that will be put into a Sunsynchronous polar orbit and will obtain continuous solar observations for about 8 months per year. It will collect images of solar plasmas at temperatures from 104 to 107 K, with 1-arcsec spatial resolution and excellent temporal resolution and continuity. With such data, we expect to gain a new understanding of many solar and stellar problems ranging from coronal heating to impulsive magnetohydrodynamic phenomena.
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Strong, K., Bruner, M., Tarbell, T. et al. Trace — The transition region and coronal explorer. Space Sci Rev 70, 119–122 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00777855
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00777855