Reading Sunlight: NASA’s Solar ‘PUNCH’ Mission By Chris Lowder, Ph.D.

Reading Sunlight: NASA’s Solar ‘PUNCH’ Mission By Chris Lowder, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Solar and Heliospheric Physics,
Southwest Research Institute, Boulder

• NASA’s PUNCH mission (Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere) is a constellation of four satellites orbiting Earth continuously along the sunrise/sunset line.
• Working together the PUNCH satellites observe the Sun’s inner heliosphere - helping us understanding the outflowing solar wind, and the impacts of space weather here on Earth.

• Join Dr. Lowder as he describes his work with the PUNCH mission and the amazing data that will allow
us to better understand our star and its effects on Earth.

Dr. Chris Lowder is a heliophysicist working with the PUNCH solar mission. His research focuses on understanding magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere, the solar wind, and space weather impacts. His B.S. in Physics is from the Georgia Institute of Technology , M.S. and Ph.D. from Montana State Univ, and postdoctoral research at Durham University in England.

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