Tag: SDO

SDO: Tons of Data

Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. SDO will send 1.5 terabytes of data back to Earth …
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SDO Catches Surfer Waves on the Sun

Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer’s wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. The waves hold clues as to how energy moves through that atmosphere, known as the corona, …
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Three Years of SDO Data

In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s …
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SDO Sees a Dark Filament Circle

A dark, almost circular filament broke away from the sun in a gauzy, feathery swirl, on Nov. 15, 2015, in this video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. This filament eruption …
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