LLNL multilayer mirrors fly on NASA solar mission
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 08:42
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Lab technology that originally was developed to make computer chips smaller, faster and more powerful is now being used in space to take images of the sun every 10 seconds with 10 times better resolution than high-definition television. Lab-developed extreme ultraviolet multilayer mirrors are part of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, which is one of three instruments on board NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft.