A look back at NASA solar missions
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 07:52
in Astronomy & Space
Twenty years ago, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a cooperative effort between NASA and the European Space Agency, launched into space and revolutionized our study of the sun and a scientific discipline called heliophysics – the study of how the sun's influence spreads out in all directions, able to dramatically affect the space environment near Earth and throughout the solar system.