SDO Sees Massive Eruption, Scorching Rain On The Sun - Pretty Awesome
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 16:50
in Astronomy & Space
Check out these awesome videos from NASA's new Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). If you aren't familiar with it, SDO is part of NASA's Living With a Star Program, which should help us understand the Sun's influence on Earth by studying the solar atmosphere in small time scales and in many wavelengths simultaneously. The end goal is to help us understand solar variations that influence life on Earth by determininghow the Sun's magnetic field is generated and structured and how this stored magnetic energy is converted and released into the heliosphere and geospace in the form of solar wind, energetic particles, and variations in the solar irradiance. read more