SDO Update: Amazing 1st Pictures April 23, 2010
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Twisting streamers of ionized gas tower over the Sun in a large prominence captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on March 30, 2010. Click here to see a short (2MB) video clip of the event, and click here to view or download the full-resolution version.
NASA / AIA team
This false-color image, produced by combining three images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s AIA instrument, shows the Sun’s appearance on April 8, 2010. Click here to view higher-resolution views and videos.
NASA / GSFC Science Visualization Studiio
SDO Launch successful. February 11, 2010
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Solar Dynamics Observatory
Todays launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory was breathtaking and successful. At a geosynchronous orbit of about 23000 feet it will point itself toward the sun and begin sending information back to the NM station.
“The research is expected to reveal the sun’s inner workings by constantly taking high resolution images of the sun, collecting readings from inside the sun and measuring its magnetic field activity.” NASA
These events never cease to amaze me.
