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== Instruments == {| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Experiments on board the Solar Maximum Mission |- ! Name !! Target !! Principal Investigator |- | [[Coronagraph]]/Polarimeter: 446.5β658.3 nm, 1.5- 6 sq.solar radii [[Field of view|fov]], 6.4 arcsec res. || Solar corona, prominences, and flares || House, Lewis L., [[High Altitude Observatory]] |- | Ultraviolet Spectrometer and polarimeter 175.0β360.0 nm raster imager, 0.004 nm sp.res. || Solar UV, [[Earth]]'s [[atmosphere]] || [[Einar Tandberg-Hanssen|Tandberg-Hanssen, Einar A.]], [[NASA]] [[Marshall Space Flight Center]] |- | Soft X-ray Polychromator: raster imager, crystal spectrom. in parts of 0.14β2.25 nm || Solar flares, active solar regions || [[Loren Acton|Acton, Loren W.]], [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed Palo Alto]], Culhane, J [[University College, London]], Leonard, Gabriel, Alan-Henri, [[Rutherford Appleton Laboratory]] |- | Hard X-ray Imaging Spectrometer: [[field of view|fov]] 6.4 arcmin, 8 or 32 arcsec res, 3.5β30 keV || Solar active regions and flares ||[[Cornelis de Jager|de Jager, Cornelis]], [[University of Utrecht]] |- |Hard X-ray Burst Spectrometer: CsI(Na), 15 energy channels covering 20β260 keV || Solar flares and active regions || [[Kenneth John Frost|Frost, Kenneth J.]], [[NASA Goddard Space Flight Center]] |- | Gamma-ray Spectrometer: NaI(T1),0.01-100 MeV in 476 channels, 16.4 s per spectrum || solar gamma-rays || Chupp, Edward L, [[University of New Hampshire]] |- | Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor: 0.001-1000 micrometer solar flux || solar irradiance || Willson, Richard C, [[NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] |- |}
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