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PUNCH Mission

a NASA mission to study the solar wind

PUNCH Mission

PUNCH is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to better understand how the mass and energy of the Sun’s corona become the solar wind that fills the solar system. Four suitcase-sized satellites work together to produce images of the entire inner solar system around the clock.

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Community contributed PUNCH-related software is listed at this link Open an issue or pull request to contribute new tools.

april2026_cam_lowres.mp4

The animation above shows a low-resolution rendering of preliminary v0k images from April 2026.

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  1. punch-mission punch-mission Public

    Welcome to PUNCH!

    4 1

  2. punchbowl punchbowl Public

    Calibration for the PUNCH mission

    Python 16 4

  3. regularizepsf regularizepsf Public

    A Python package for manipulating and correcting variable point spread functions.

    Python 20 3

  4. solpolpy solpolpy Public

    A solar polarization resolver.

    Python 5

  5. PUNCH_IDL_Tools PUNCH_IDL_Tools Public

    Tools for analysis of PUNCH data in IDL.

    IDL 1 1

  6. punch-playground punch-playground Public

    A collection of example notebooks for PUNCH

    Jupyter Notebook 3 1

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