Solstice

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  • Solstice
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  • The SOlar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment (SOLSTICE) is one of four solar irradiance measurement experiments that was launched as part of the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) on January 25, 2003. SORCE SOLSTICE is a follow-on to the very successful SOLSTICE launched aboard the Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS) in 1991 [Rottman et al., 1993]. The new SOLSTICE will make daily solar ultraviolet (115-320 nm) irradiance measurements and compare them to the irradiance from an ensemble of 18 stable early-type stars. This approach provides an accurate monitor of instrument in-flight performance and provides a basis for solar-stellar irradiance comparison for future generations. The first generation SOLSTICE instrument, UARS SOLSTICE, was on the UARS spacecraft and made daily solar irradiance measurements between 118 and 425 nm approximately 15 times per day. UARS was decommissioned on 14 December 2005. Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: SOLSTICE Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Solar/Space Observing Instruments Instrument_Class: Ultraviolet Instruments Short_Name: SOLSTICE Long_Name: Solar-Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: UARS Short_Name: SORCE End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: ULTRAVIOLET Number_Channels: 1 Spectral_Frequency_Coverage_Range: 115-320 nm End_Group Online_Resource: http://lasp.colorado.edu/solstice/solstice_home.html Online_Resource: http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/UARS/documents/solstice Sample_Image: http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/solstice/files/2012/04/sols_int5.gif Creation_Date: 2016-01-08 Group: Instrument_Logistics Data_Rate: 521 bps Instrument_Start_Date: 2003-01-25 Instrument_Owner: LASP-CU End_Group Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Start_Date: 1991-10-03 Instrument_Stop_Date: 2005-12-14 Instrument_Owner: LASP-CU End_Group End_Group
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  • Solar-Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
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Abstract from DBPedia
    A solstice is an event that occurs when the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two solstices occur annually, around June 21 and December 21. In many countries, the seasons of the year are determined by the solstices and the equinoxes. The term solstice can also be used in a broader sense, as the day when this occurs. The day of a solstice in either hemisphere has either the most sunlight of the year (summer solstice) or the least sunlight of the year (winter solstice) for any place other than the Equator. Alternative terms, with no ambiguity as to which hemisphere is the context, are "June solstice" and "December solstice", referring to the months in which they take place every year. The word solstice is derived from the Latin sol ("sun") and sistere ("to stand still"), because at the solstices, the Sun's declination appears to "stand still"; that is, the seasonal movement of the Sun's daily path (as seen from Earth) pauses at a northern or southern limit before reversing direction.

    至点(してん、solstice)とは1年に2回、天球上において太陽の赤道面からの距離が最大となる瞬間、またはその時の太陽の位置を指す語である。至点を意味する英語の solstice はラテン語の solstitium という語に由来する。これは sol (太陽)と動詞 sistere (静止する)を語源としており、至点では太陽の赤緯の増減が止まり、最大または最小の値に達することによる。太陽が至点に達する日(夏至・冬至)は分点に達する日(春分・秋分)とともに季節に関連している。いくつかの言語圏ではこれらの日がそれぞれの季節の始まりを表す日として用いられている。また、これらの日を各季節の中間とする文化圏もある(例として、北半球の英語圏では夏至の日の前後の期間を midsummer と呼び、夏至の2、3日後である6月24日を Midsummer's Day と呼んでいる)。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Solstice)