"PUNCH is going to provide an unprecedented three-dimensional view of the corona as it turns into the solar wind and fills our solar system," Nicholeen Viall, PUNCH's mission scientist from NASA's ...

The electrons in the corona and solar wind scatter sunlight through a process called Thompson scattering, and the resulting light is polarized. The PUNCH imagers, connected together into a vast ...

These cameras will capture a unique perspective of the evolving solar wind, delivering critical data to scientists worldwide. "It's incredibly exciting to see PUNCH in orbit and ready to begin its ...

The PUNCH satellites will be spread out around Earth along the day-night line, also known as the 'twilight zone', to create a global view of the solar corona and its transition to the solar wind.