PUNCH, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere, 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. Learn more here.

This repository contains the top-level documents for the PUNCH mission's work on GitHub:

• Code of Conduct
• Contribution Guide
• Development Guide
• Advice on how to get help
• Repository Index
• Contributed Tools
• A project wide requirements.txt that pins dependencies (This is what we run when producing data.)
• Current versions of PUNCH-authored packages used in data production.
• Compatibility among PUNCH packages

You can access our top-level discussions to ask general questions about PUNCH. If you have a question or issue specific to a certain repository, please ask in that repository's discussion.

The main documentation is on ReadTheDocs for punchbowl.

1. Download the requirements.txt.
2. Download the PUNCH package list.
3. Create a virtual environment in Python using venv with python -m venv .venv
4. Activate the virtual environment with source .venv/bin/activate.
5. Install the dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Install the appropriate SOC-developed packages either manually from source or with pip install -r requirements_PUNCH.txt.
7. Explore some data!