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.
- To learn more about PUNCH, check the PUNCH website.
- To get started with PUNCH software, check the punch-mission repo.
- To learn how to download data, check this example.
- To ask questions, please log in to GitHub and open a discussion.
- To experiment with PUNCH data, visit the PUNCH Playground full of Python Jupyter notebooks.
v0l_l3_cam_20260625.mp4
The animation above shows a low-resolution rendering of PUNCH clear images (version 0l, product L3_CAM) from May 2026.