Caption: 
The SwRI-led PUNCH mission has launched an assistant investigator program to allow early career scientists to benefit from the career-enriching experience of being embedded in a NASA mission. PUNCH’s constellation of four suitcase-sized satellites will orbit the Earth, studying how the Sun’s corona connects with the interplanetary medium, to better understand how coronal structures infuse the solar wind with mass and energy.

Credit: 
Courtesy of Southwest Research Institute