Solar radiation | 2017-2018

Improving our Sun knowledge while certifying our instruments
Improving our Sun knowledge while certifying our instruments
The assessment of the radiometric performances of both spatial and ground-based instruments, measuring the solar spectrum, is done in BIRA-IASB’s radiometric laboratories.
SOLAR on ISS
Sun, here we come!
Humans have developed instrumentation to measure the spectral shape of sunlight. BIRA-IASB contributed to this quest with the SOLAR/SOLSPEC instrument on board the ISS.