China has completed its work on its next-generation solar radio heliograph, which will be used to study solar activities such as flares and coronal mass ejections, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced Thursday.
The Chinese Spectral Radioheliograph (CSRH), built at Ming'antu, a radio quiet region in China's Inner Mongolia, consists of 100 antennas with different frequency spectra covering an area of 10 square kilometers. It can monitor solar activities on a wide imaging resolution spectrum.
The project was initiated in 2009 and has been funded by the Ministry of Finance.
Wang Enge, vice president of CAS, invited scientists from abroad to join in the CSRH project, saying it will enable China to better forecast solar activity and monitor space weather conditions.
On Sunday, work was completed on the world's largest radio telescope, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in Guizhou Province. (Xinhua)
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