STEREO Watches the Active Sun
The Sun belches out gas at thousands of kilometers per second as the STEREO A spacecraft looks on.
The Sun belches out gas at thousands of kilometers per second as the STEREO A spacecraft looks on.
The loop of a CME heads right at a STEREO satellite.
STEREO A, Earth, Sun and STEREO B (in the distance). Note this is NOT TO SCALE.
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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Animator
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
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Scientist
- Therese Kucera (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
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[STEREO]
ID: 169The STEREO mission consists of two Sun-observing spacecraft that will travel around the Sun on orbits slightly inside and slightly outside Earth's orbit.
This dataset can be found at: https://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, April 26, 2005.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.