The Solar Maximum Mission

The Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) spacecraft was launched on February 14, 1980, near the height of the solar cycle, to enable the solar phsyics community to examine, in more physically meaningful detail than ever before, the most violent aspect of solar activity: flares.

(From NASA's Solar Maximum Mission: A Look at a New Sun)

• The Hard X-Ray Burst Spectrometer (HXRBS) page

  Energy Range: 25 - 500 keV.

• The Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) page

  Energy Range: 10 - 140 MeV for Gamma Rays and neutrons above 20 MeV, and 10 - 140 keV for hard X-rays.

• The Ultraviolet Spectrometer and Polarimeter (UVSP) page

  Wavelength Range: 1170 - 1800 Ångstroms in second order, and up to 3600 Ångstroms in first order.

• The Coronagraph/Polarimeter CME page at the High Altitude Laboratory (HAO).

• The X-Ray Polychromator https archive of Flat Crystal Spectrometer rasters and Bent Crystal Spectrometer light curves at the SDAC (documentation in development).

Web curator: Joseph B. Gurman
Responsible NASA official: Joseph B. Gurman, Facility Scientist, Solar Data Analysis Center

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