Solar Dynamics Observatory
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The Solar Dynamics Observatory is a NASA mission which has been observing the Sun since 2010. Launched on 11 February 2010, the observatory is part of the Living With a Star program.
Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite
Comparison of HMI Continuum images immediately after an eclipse, and then after the sensor has re-warmed.
Camilla Corona SDO
SDO Instruments
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory is a European Space Agency spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS laun
Solar Dynamics Observatory
…mission lasted five years and three months, with expendables expected to last at least ten years. Some consider SDO to be a follow-on mission to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). SDO is a three-axis stabilized spacecraft, with two solar arrays, and two high-gain antennas, in an inclined geosynchronous orbit around Earth…
Artist's rendering of the SOHO spacecraft
ESA engineers work on the SOHO spacecraft
Scale model of SOHO at the Euro Space Center in Belgium
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