Abstract:
[Source: NASA/GSFC Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) home page,
http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ]
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). This two-year mission will employ two nearly identical space-based observatories - one ahead of
... Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind - to provide the first-ever stereoscopic measurements to study the Sun and the nature of its coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.
STEREO's scientific objectives are to:
- Understand the causes and mechanisms of coronal mass ejection (CME) initiation.
- Characterize the propagation of CMEs through the heliosphere.
- Discover the mechanisms and sites of energetic particle acceleration in the low corona and the interplanetary medium.
- Improve the determination of the structure of the ambient solar wind.
Please link to the STEREO project website for additional information: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Please link to the STEREO Science Center to access STEREO data: http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/ 
