NASA On Air: NASA's SDO Satellite Captures HD Time Lapse Of The Sun (2/12/2016)
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- Howard Joe Witte
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LEAD: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory catches the sun in HD video.
1: Images shown here are in the extreme ultraviolet range.
2: The temperature of the solar material is near 1 million degrees F.
3: It's easy to see the sun's rotation, 1 full rotation every 25 days.
TAG: Scientists study these images to better understand the solar flares and solar explosions called coronal mass ejections that can sometimes disrupt our technology such as GPS systems.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Video editor
- Sophia Roberts (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Producer
- Howard Joe Witte (ADNET) [Lead]
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