| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | First Results from Solar B mission |
| Main Convener | Dr. Kazunari Shibata (Kyoto University, Japan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Takashi Sakurai (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Japan) Dr. John Davis (NASA, United States) Dr. Louise Harra (University College London, United States) |
| Session Description | The Solar B satelite will be launched on Sep. 23, 2006, carrying three instruments, SOT (solar optical telescope), XRT (X-ray telescope) and EIS (EUV imaging spectrometer), which will give us unprecedented high spatial resolution data on optical and X-ray images, vector magnetogram, and EUV spectroheliogram. It will be timely to have a session on first results from Solar B mission at this time. |