Whats the current estimate on public data availabity from the STEREO mission?
Kaiser: Well, there are two types of data. There’s this space weather data that Jim mentioned, that’s going to be broadcast almost immediately, and our goal is to have it up on the Web, available within five minutes of receipt on the ground. And then the higher-resolution data, the typical data, we basically get a download once a day, and that data will have to be processed, so typically, 24 to 48 hours after that data is taken, it’ll become available on the Web site, stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov, and you can find everything there. Junichi Maki from Niihama-City: Does the STEREO spacecraft observe and/or study the magnetic field of the sun and the Earth? Kaiser: Yes, particularly the sun. There’s a magnetometer aboard that measures the sun’s magnetic field. Now this is the magnetic field at the spacecraft, so it’s the solar wind’s magnetic field. But during the early three months of the mission, before it even gets into orbit around the sun, it actually makes all these nice loops past the Eart
