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See also STEREO-A Returns by Earth.While STEREO-B is no longer available, it is possible to construct stereo imagery of the Sun using STEREO-A with Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Here we present a series of images for corresponding filters between the two missions which can be used for stereo viewing.Color (SDO color table) Left/Right Image PairsIn this section, we present frame-synchronized left eye (STEREO-A) and right eye (SDO) for the specified ultraviolet filter. They are provided as separate movie and frame-sets to maximize flexibility for the target viewing technology. Time stamps are provided as separate image files for compositing if desired. If you match frame numbers for the image sets for a specific filter, you will have images closest in time for apropriate left/right eye pairing.171 Angstrom filter || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 40507, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hyperwall-power-playlist-heliophysics-focus/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2023-08-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall Power Playlist - Heliophysics Focus", "description": "This is a collection of our most powerful, newsworthy, and frequently used Hyperwall-ready visualizations, along with several that haven't gotten the attention they deserve. They're especially great for more general or top-level science talks, or to \"set the scene\" before a deep dive into a more focused subject or dataset. We've tried to cover the subject areas our speakers focus on most. \n\nIf you're not seeing what you're looking for, there is a huge library of visualizations more localized or specialized in subject - please use the Search function above, and filter \"Result type\" for \"Hyperwall Visual.\"\n\n If you'd like to use one of these visualizations in your Hyperwall presentation, we'll need to know which element on which page. On the visualization's web page, below the visual you'd like to use, you'll see a Link icon next to the Download button. All we need is for you to click on that icon and include that link in your presentation Powerpoint/Keynote or visualization list. 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Like race cars driving different speeds around a circular track, STEREO-A is traveling slightly faster than Earth around the Sun. After launch, STEREO-A pulled ahead of Earth and extended its lead a little bit more with each orbit. 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SET has been decommissioned. As of Fall 2022, here's a tour of the NASA Heliophysics fleet from the near-Earth satellites out to the Voyagers beyond the heliopause.Excepting the Voyager missions, the satellite orbits are color coded for their observing program:Magenta: TIM (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere) observationsYellow: solar observations and imageryCyan: Geospace and magnetosphereViolet: Heliospheric observations || ", "hits": 71 }, { "id": 4989, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4989/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-04-18T13:30:00-04:00", "title": "Apollo 16 Lands in the Lunar Highlands", "description": "The camera flies from the east to the Apollo 16 landing site, then flies north to North Ray crater. 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NASA, NOAA Scientists Explain What This Means", "description": "Solar Cycle 25 has begun. The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel announced solar minimum occurred in December 2019, marking the transition into a new solar cycle. In a press event, experts from the panel, NASA, and NOAA discussed the analysis and Solar Cycle 25 prediction, and how the rise to the next solar maximum and subsequent upswing in space weather will impact our lives and technology on Earth.A new solar cycle comes roughly every 11 years. Over the course of each cycle, the star transitions from relatively calm to active and stormy, and then quiet again; at its peak, the Sun’s magnetic poles flip. Now that the star has passed solar minimum, scientists expect the Sun will grow increasingly active in the months and years to come.Understanding the Sun’s behavior is an important part of life in our solar system. The Sun’s outbursts—including eruptions known as solar flares and coronal mass ejections—can disturb the satellites and communications signals traveling around Earth, or one day, Artemis astronauts exploring distant worlds. Scientists study the solar cycle so we can better predict solar activity.Click here for the NOAA press kit.Listen to the media telecon.Participants:• Lisa Upton, Co-chair, Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel; Solar Physicist, Space Systems Research Corporation• Doug Biesecker, Solar Physicist, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center; Co-chair, Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel• Elsayed Talaat, Director, Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service • Lika Guhathakurta, Heliophysicist, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters • Jake Bleacher, Chief Exploration Scientist, NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate || ", "hits": 405 }, { "id": 4822, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4822/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-09-15T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Heliophysics Sentinels 2020", "description": "There have been few changes since the 2018 Heliophysics Fleet. Van Allen Probes and SORCE have been decommissioned, while Solar Orbiter, ICON and SET have been added. As of spring 2020, here's a tour of the NASA Heliophysics fleet from the near-Earth satellites out to the Voyagers beyond the heliopause.Excepting the Voyager missions, the satellite orbits are color coded for their observing program:Magenta: TIM (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere) observationsYellow: solar observations and imageryCyan: Geospace and magnetosphereViolet: Heliospheric observations || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 13661, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13661/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-07-10T09:50:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Missions Spot Comet NEOWISE", "description": "These images from ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory show comet NEOWISE as it approached the Sun in late June 2020. The instrument that produced this data is a coronagraph, which uses a solid disk to block out the Sun’s bright face, revealing the comparatively outer atmosphere, the corona, along with objects like comet NEOWISE. 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These conditions provided a unique opportunity for scientists to study how the Sun influences conditions at points throughout space, with multiple angles of observation and at different distances from the Sun. || ", "hits": 93 }, { "id": 40409, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/fermi-stills/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2020-01-22T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Stills", "description": "A collection of Fermi-related still images, illustrations, graphics and short clips.", "hits": 239 }, { "id": 13494, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13494/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-11T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "AGU 2019 - New Science from NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission", "description": "Little more than a year into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned gigabytes of data on the Sun and its atmosphere. The very first science from the Parker mission is just beginning to be shared, and five researchers presented new findings from the mission at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Dec. 11, 2019. Their research hints at the processes behind both the Sun's continual outflow of material — the solar wind — and more infrequent solar storms that can disrupt technology and endanger astronauts, along with new insight into space dust that creates the Geminids meteor shower.Speakers:Nicholeen Viall - Research Astrophysicist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterTim Horbury - Professor of Physics, Imperial College LondonKelly Korreck - Astrophysicist, Head of Science Operations for SWEAP Suite, Harvard and Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsNathan Schwadron - Presidential Chair, Norman S. and Anna Marie Waite Professor, University of New HampshireKarl Battams - Computational Scientist, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory || ", "hits": 140 }, { "id": 4767, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4767/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-11-19T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Apollo 12 Landing Site", "description": "The Apollo 12 landing site visualized in three dimensions using photography and a stereo digital elevation model from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. 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Mission controllers lost contact with STEREO-B on September 23, 2016, but STEREO-A continues to bring its unique viewpoint to studies of the Sun and the giant bubble surrounding our solar system called the heliosphere.\n\nLearn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/stereo/", "hits": 297 }, { "id": 12927, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12927/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-04-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Looking at the Corona with WISPR on Parker Solar Probe", "description": "The Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR, is aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to take images of the solar corona (the Sun’s atmosphere) and inner heliosphere. WISPR’s telescopes will provide white-light images of the solar wind, shocks, solar ejecta and other structures as they approach and pass the spacecraft. Parker Solar Probe is scheduled for launch in July 2018. It will be the first spacecraft ever to fly through the solar corona to investigate the evolution of the solar wind and heating of the solar corona. WISPR does not look directly at the Sun. Its very wide field-of-view extends from 13° away from the center of the Sun to 108° from the Sun. || ", "hits": 238 }, { "id": 4717, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4717/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-03-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Taurus-Littrow Valley through LRO's Eyes", "description": "This visualization of the Taurus-Littrow valley, site of the Apollo 17 Moon landing, uses multiple Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter datasets to zoom into the valley and illustrate the paths taken by the astronauts during their three days of exploration at the site. The data includes wide-angle (WAC) and narrow-angle (NAC) camera images, LOLA laser altimetry, and a high-resolution elevation map created from NAC stereo pairs. 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Particles accelerated by these eruptions somehow reach around to produce a gamma-ray glow on the side of the sun facing Earth and Fermi. Watch to learn more. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.This illustration shows large magnetic structures extending high above the sun from the active region hosting the Sept. 1, 2014, solar blast. Left: Scientists think particles accelerated at the leading edge of the event's coronal mass ejection followed magnetic lines high above the sun. Right: Some of the particles followed similar magnetic structures rooted in the Earth-facing side of the sun. They rained down on the sun and interacted with the solar surface, producing gamma rays (magenta). The solar images shown here come from (left) STEREO B and (right) NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. 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It features a free-air gravity map of the Orientale impact basin based on data returned by the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission.Orientale is about 930 kilometers wide and lies on the western limb of the Moon as viewed from Earth. It's the Moon's youngest and best-preserved large impact basin, formed about 3.8 billion years ago at the end of the conjectured Late Heavy Bombardment. A paper in Science by Maria Zuber et al. uses the GRAIL data to shed new light on the basin's geology, while a second paper by Brandon Johnson et al. describes a computer simulation of the basin's formation constrained by that data.The shaded relief in this image is not a photograph. It's a very accurate computer rendering based on a digital model of the terrain. The model is derived from a digital elevation map called SLDEM2015. This map combines data from the laser altimeter (LOLA) on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) with stereo imagery from the Terrain Camera on the Japan Space Agency's SELENE spacecraft.The angle of the virtual Sun was chosen to throw Orientale's terrain into high relief — it's just after sunrise at Orientale, about a day past full Moon. The camera is on the western terminator (day/night line) looking north.The colorful part is the gravity anomaly based on measurements by GRAIL. Red indicates areas of higher gravity, or excess mass, and blue indicates lower gravity or areas of mass deficits. The GRAIL data reveals the structure of the basin beneath the surface. The red in the center of the basin, for example, shows that the crust is particularly thin there, and that denser mantle material is closer to the surface. || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 12390, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12390/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-10-17T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's STEREO Solar Probes 10th Anniversary Live Shots", "description": "B-roll that corresponds with the live shots. || B-Roll_2.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [130.4 KB] || B-Roll_2.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [78.8 KB] || B-Roll_2.00001_web.png (320x180) [78.8 KB] || B-Roll_2.00001_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || B-Roll.webm (1280x720) [19.6 MB] || B-Roll_2.webm (1280x720) [19.5 MB] || B-Roll_2.mov (1280x720) [3.1 GB] || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 12379, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12379/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-09-28T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Space Radiation Highlights", "description": "A collection of space radiation highlights featuring:NASA's Van Allen ProbesNASA's CubeSats || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 12329, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12329/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-09-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Snapshots from the Edge of the Sun", "description": "GIF of animated sun with corona and solar wind labels. || coronasolarwind.gif (1041x586) [2.2 MB] || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 4444, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4444/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-08-01T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rima Prinz and Vera", "description": "The camera zooms from an overhead, global view centered on the northern rim of Prinz crater, at 26.3°N 43.7°W, down to an oblique, close-up view of Vera crater and the associated rille, Rima Prinz. 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The virtual camera moves from the equator toward the north pole, revealing the permanently shadowed regions recently found there. || psr.0900_print.jpg (1024x576) [107.2 KB] || psr.0900_searchweb.png (320x180) [60.7 KB] || psr.0900_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || ceres_psr_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [18.2 MB] || ceres_psr_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [8.6 MB] || psr (1920x1080) [32.0 KB] || ceres_psr_720p30.webm (1280x720) [3.5 MB] || ceres_psr_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [2.7 MB] || ceres_psr_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [194 bytes] || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 12292, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12292/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-24T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Highlights of 2016/2017", "description": "A collection of solar highlights featuring:- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)- NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission- ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)- NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 12142, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12142/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-02-04T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Storm That Missed Earth", "description": "The big solar storm of 2012 was one for the record books. || c-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [858.4 KB] || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [493.8 KB] || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [333.3 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [348.1 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [115.4 KB] || c-1024_web.png (320x180) [115.4 KB] || c-1024_thm.png (80x40) [20.0 KB] || ", "hits": 514 }, { "id": 40279, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/siggraph2009kostis/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2016-01-06T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "SIGGRAPH 2009 Presentation by Helen-Nicole Kostis", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 5 }, { "id": 4392, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4392/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-12-08T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Space Weather to the Edge of the Solar System", "description": "Cropped view of the Enlil model from early 2015 to just after the New Horizons flyby of Pluto. || NewHorizons2015_40AU.NoSTEREO_1080p30.01000_print.jpg (1024x576) [72.7 KB] || NewHorizons2015_40AU.NoSTEREO_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [27.9 MB] || NewHorizons2015_40AU.NoSTEREO_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [6.6 MB] || NewHorizons2015_40AU.NoSTEREO.3840x2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [82.5 MB] || 5760x3240_16x9_30p (5760x3240) [0 Item(s)] || NoSTEREO (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || space-weather-to-the-edge-of-the-solar-system-hd1080-movie.hwshow [336 bytes] || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 40271, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/live-shots-gallery/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-11-27T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Live Shots Gallery Collection", "description": "Collection of live shot pages of b-roll and interviews!", "hits": 503 }, { "id": 40254, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hyperwall-heliophysics/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-09-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall Heliophysics", "description": "A topically-organized Gallery of Hyperwall-ready heliophysics content.", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 11737, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11737/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-02-05T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Tracking Solar Eruptions", "description": "Explore how scientists trace the journey of material exploding from the sun. || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [129.9 KB] || c-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [290.2 KB] || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [181.0 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [126.9 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [78.3 KB] || c-1024_print_thm.png (80x40) [14.7 KB] || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 11732, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11732/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-01-27T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Comet vs. Sun", "description": "A solar eruption blasts the tail off a comet. || cq-1280.jpg (1280x720) [172.1 KB] || cq-1024.jpg (1024x576) [132.0 KB] || cq-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [128.1 KB] || cq-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [91.4 KB] || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 11558, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11558/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-09-24T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Many Views of a Massive CME", "description": "On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space. It soon passed one of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, spacecraft, which clocked the CME as traveling between 1,800 and 2,200 miles per second as it left the sun. This was the fastest CME ever observed by STEREO. Two other observatories – NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the joint European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory — witnessed the eruption as well. The July 2012 CME didn't move toward Earth, but watching an unusually strong CME like this gives scientists an opportunity to observe how these events originate and travel through space. STEREO's unique viewpoint from the sides of the sun combined with the other two observatories watching from closer to Earth helped scientists create models of the entire July 2012 event. They learned that an earlier, smaller CME helped clear the path for the larger event, thus contributing to its unusual speed. Such data helps advance our understanding of what causes CMEs and improves modeling of similar CMEs that could be Earth-directed. || ", "hits": 320 }, { "id": 11642, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11642/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-09-23T11:45:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Edge", "description": "How big is the sun’s atmosphere? In a word: huge. Like Earth, the sun’s atmosphere consists of multiple layers. It has a lower atmosphere, called the chromosphere, and a significantly larger upper atmosphere, called the corona. Although the exact boundaries of these regions are fuzzy, the outer limit of the corona is marked by the place where the sun’s solar wind breaks free. Using NASA’s STEREO spacecraft, scientists have found the extent of the corona is greater than previously thought, stretching some five million miles from the surface. The distance is equivalent to approximately six times the sun's length. Knowing this information will help guide the planning of future sun-observing missions. Watch the video to see solar material streaming from the sun. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 11629, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11629/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-08-25T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Late Summer M5 Solar Flare - August, 24, 2014", "description": "On Aug. 24, 2014, the sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 8:16 a.m. EDT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the flare, which erupted on the left side of the sun. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.To see how this event may affect Earth, please visit NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center at http://spaceweather.gov, the U.S. government's official source for space weather forecasts, alerts, watches and warnings.This flare is classified as an M5 flare. M-class flares are ten times less powerful than the most intense flares, called X-class flares.Visit the SDO site.All Video and Image Credit: NASA/SDO || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 4167, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4167/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Big CME that Missed Earth", "description": "July of 2012 witnessed the eruption of a very large and fast solar coronal mass ejection (CME) (see NASA STEREO Observes One of the Fastest CMEs On Record and Carrington-class CME Narrowly Misses Earth ). While not directed at Earth, it was sufficiently large that it could have seriously disrupted the global electrical infrastructure. The event did impact STEREO-A of NASA's heliophysics fleet which provided a host of measurements (see Sentinels of the Heliosphere).One of the conditions which contributed to the high speed of this event is that two smaller CMEs were launched a little earlier, and these events cleared out much of the solar wind material, leaving little to slow the outflow of the July 23 event (UTC).In the visualizations below, generated from the Enlil space weather model, green represents particle density, usually protons and other ions. In green, we see the Parker spiral moving out from the sun generated by the sun's current sheet (Wikipedia). Red represents particles at high temperatures and shows the CME is hotter than the usual solar wind flow. Large changes in density are represented in blue. These three colors sometimes combine to tell us more about the characteristics of the event (noted in the 3-color Venn diagram below).However, if this CME had struck Earth's magnetosphere, which has a much stronger magnetic field, the changing magnetic field would induce much larger voltages in systems with long electrical conductors, such as power lines that run over long distances. These significantly higher voltages can damage power transformers. || ", "hits": 298 }, { "id": 4177, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4177/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "As Seen by STEREO-A: The Carrington-Class CME of 2012", "description": "STEREO-A, at a position along Earth's orbit where it has an unobstructed view of the far side of the Sun, could clearly observe possibly the most powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) of solar cyle 24 on July 23, 2012. The visualizations on this page cover the entire day.We see the flare erupt in the lower right quadrant of the solar disk from a large active region. The material is launched into space in a direction towards STEREO-A. This creates the ring-like 'halo' CME visible in the STEREO-A coronagraph, COR-2 (blue circular image).As the CME expands beyond the field of view of the COR-2 imager, the high energy particles reach STEREO-A, creating the snow-like noise in the image. The particles also strike the HI-2 imager (blue square) brightening the image.The HI-1 imager has had 'bloom removal' enabled and filled with contents of the immediately previous HI-1 image, which creates a linear artifact above and below bright stars and planets. || ", "hits": 175 }, { "id": 4178, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4178/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "As Seen by STEREO-B: The Carrington-Class CME of 2012", "description": "Like SDO, STEREO-B did not have a direct view of the coronal mass ejection (CME) launched by the sun on July 23, 2012. However, the active region involved was very close to the limb of the sun (lower left quadrant) and STEREO-B provided an excellent view of plasma launched in both ultraviolet light and the white-light coronagraph. || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 4185, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4185/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-07-18T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "A New Look at the Apollo 11 Landing Site", "description": "Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20th, 1969, a little after 4:00 in the afternoon Eastern Daylight Time. The Lunar Module, nicknamed Eagle and flown by Neil Armstrong and Edwin \"Buzz\" Aldrin, touched down near the southern rim of the Sea of Tranquility, one of the large, dark basins that contribute to the Man in the Moon visible from Earth. Armstrong and Aldrin spent about two hours outside the LM setting up experiments and collecting samples. At one point, Armstrong ventured east of the LM to examine a small crater, dubbed Little West, that he'd flown over just before landing.The trails of disturbed regolith created by the astronauts' boots are still clearly visible in photographs of the landing site taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) narrow-angle camera (LROC) more than four decades later.LROC imagery makes it possible to visit the landing site in a whole new way by flying around a three-dimensional model of the site. LROC scientists created the digital elevation model using a stereo pair of images. Each image in the pair shows the site from a slightly different angle, allowing sophisticated software to infer the shape of the terrain, similar to the way that left and right eye views are combined in the brain to produce the perception of depth.The animator draped an LROC photograph over the terrain model. He also added a 3D model of the LM descent stage—the real LM in the photograph looks oddly flat when viewed at an oblique angle.Although the area around the site is relatively flat by lunar standards, West Crater (the big brother of the crater visited by Armstrong) appears in dramatic relief near the eastern edge of the terrain model. Ejecta from West comprises the boulders that Armstrong had to avoid as he searched for a safe landing site.Apollo 11 was the first of six increasingly ambitious crewed lunar landings. The exploration of the lunar surface by the Apollo astronauts, when combined with the wealth of remote sensing data now being returned by LRO, continues to inform our understanding of our nearest neighbor in space. || ", "hits": 1407 }, { "id": 11602, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11602/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-07-03T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "STEREO Solar Conjunction", "description": "Since February 2011, the two spacecraft of NASA's STEREO mission have been providing scientists with unprecedented views of the far side of the sun. Placed in an orbit that allows their perspective to changed over the eight years since their launch in 2008 (ck), the satellites are about to enter a new phase of their journey: a time when the bright light and heat of the sun will stand in the way of sending data back to Earth.This phase is a direct result of the orbits for STEREO, which is short for the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory. The spacecraft travel at different speeds. This means that over time, the satellites become increasingly out of sync, appearing from Earth's perspective to drift farther apart, able to observe first the sides and eventually the far side of the sun. For the first time ever, thanks to STEREO and near-Earth solar telescopes such as NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory the human race has had its first 360-degree view of the sun.The orbits have continued to cause the STEREO spacecraft's position to change, however, and now they are nearing each other once again, this time on the other side of the sun. During this period when the sun blocks Earth's view — a geometrical position known in astronomy as a superior conjunction — radio receivers on Earth will not be able to distinguish STEREO's signal from the sun's radiation. Communication with the spacecraft will cease and the satellites will both go into safe mode without collecting data for a time. This will happen for STEREO-Ahead from March 24 to July 7, 2015. STEREO-Behind will be in superior conjunction from Jan. 22 to March 23, 2015. At least one spacecraft, therefore, will always be collecting data. Before this occurs, the heating from the sun will also begin to affect – though not shut down — data collection. From wherever they are in space, the STEREO spacecraft aim their antenna toward Earth to send down data. This position puts the antenna fairly close to pointing at the sun, exposing the instruments to more heat than it can safely bear. The antenna can be adjusted to point in different directions, but the signal coming to Earth will be much fainter and won't allow for as much data to be downloaded. This antenna adjustment will begin on Aug. 20, 2014, for the STEREO-Ahead spacecraft and on Dec. 1, 2014, for STEREO-Behind. During this phase, STEREO instruments will continue to run 24 hours a day, but they will gather lower-resolution data than usual. Some of this data will be downloaded whenever STEREO can link up with an Earth receiver. The rest of the data will be stored on board to be downloaded when the spacecraft reach a more auspicious geometrical position in early 2016. To test for this off-pointing from the sun, STEREO-Ahead will undergo tests and not be collecting data from July 6-12, 2014. The same tests will be performed on STEREO-Behind from Sept. 29 – Oct. 6, 2014. Throughout this entire phase until 2016, at least one STEREO spacecraft will be capturing data at any one time, so scientists will have an uninterrupted record of events on the sun to coordinate with the observations of solar telescopes on the Earth side. Real time monitoring of the sun, its flares and coronal mass ejections – information used by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to help forecast space weather — will also continue via a fleet of NASA spacecraft closer to Earth. || ", "hits": 39 }, { "id": 11556, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11556/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-05-30T09:30:00-04:00", "title": "A First for NASA's IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material", "description": "A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014, and NASA's newest solar observatory caught it in extraordinary detail. This was the first CME observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, which launched in June 2013 to peer into the lowest levels of the sun's atmosphere with better resolution than ever before. Watch the movie to see how a curtain of solar material erupts outward at speeds of 1.5 million miles per hour.IRIS must commit to pointing at certain areas of the sun at least a day in advance, so catching a CME in the act involves some educated guesses and a little bit of luck. \"We focus in on active regions to try to see a flare or a CME,\" said Bart De Pontieu, the IRIS science lead at Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. \"And then we wait and hope that we'll catch something. This is the first clear CME for IRIS so the team is very excited.\" The IRIS imagery focuses in on material of 30,000 Kelvin at the base, or foot points, of the CME. The line moving across the middle of the movie is the entrance slit for IRIS's spectrograph, an instrument that can split light into its many wavelengths – a technique that ultimately allows scientists to measure temperature, velocity and density of the solar material behind the slit. The field of view for this imagery is about five Earth's wide and about seven and a half Earth's tall. The IRIS Observatory was designed by and the mission is managed by Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory. NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, provides mission operations and ground data systems. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the Explorers Program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. || ", "hits": 97 }, { "id": 11416, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11416/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-12-26T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Death Of A Comet", "description": "Comet ISON was born along with the solar system some 4.5 billion years ago. But after a close encounter with the sun, its time has finally come to an end. On November 28, 2013, the comet shot around the sun on a dangerous trajectory that brought it within 700,000 miles of the surface. As it disappeared from view of sun-observing spacecraft, scientists waited with bated breath to learn of its fate. Would the comet disintegrate in the fierce heat and gravity of the sun or remain intact? Some remnant of the comet did indeed survive the trip around the sun, but it quickly dimmed and fizzled, signaling a close to ISON's magnificent journey through space. Watch the video for a look at Comet ISON’s final moments. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 4129, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4129/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-12-20T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary", "description": "In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important thing they discovered was Earth.Using photo mosaics and elevation data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), this video commemorates the 45th anniversary of Apollo 8's historic flight by recreating the moment when the crew first saw and photographed the Earth rising from behind the Moon. Narrator Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon, sets the scene for a three-minute visualization of the view from both inside and outside the spacecraft accompanied by the onboard audio of the astronauts.The visualization draws on numerous historical sources, including the actual cloud pattern on Earth from the ESSA-7 satellite and dozens of photographs taken by Apollo 8, and it reveals new, historically significant information about the Earthrise photographs. It has not been widely known, for example, that the spacecraft was rolling when the photos were taken, and that it was this roll that brought the Earth into view. The visualization establishes the precise timing of the roll and, for the first time ever, identifies which window each photograph was taken from.The key to the new work is a set of vertical stereo photographs taken by a camera mounted in the Command Module's rendezvous window and pointing straight down onto the lunar surface. It automatically photographed the surface every 20 seconds. By registering each photograph to a model of the terrain based on LRO data, the orientation of the spacecraft can be precisely determined.Andrew Chaikin's article Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8? appeared in the January, 2018 issue of Smithsonian magazine. It includes the story of the making of this visualization.A Google Hangout discussion of this visualization between Ernie Wright (creator of the visualization), Andrew Chaikin, John Keller (LRO project scientist), and Aries Keck (NASA media specialist) was held on December 20, 2013. A replay of that hangout is available here.Ernie Wright presented a talk about the making of this animation at the 2014 SIGGRAPH Conference in Vancouver. He also wrote a NASA Wavelength blog entry about Earthrise that includes links to educator resources related to LRO. || ", "hits": 1003 }, { "id": 11434, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11434/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-12-10T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Comet ISON before and during Perihelion", "description": "After a year of observations, scientists waited with bated breath on Nov. 28, 2013, as Comet ISON made its closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion. Would the comet disintegrate in the fierce heat and gravity of the sun? Or survive intact to appear as a bright comet in the pre-dawn sky? Some remnant of ISON did indeed make it around the sun, but it quickly dimmed and fizzled as seen with NASA's solar observatories. This does not mean scientists were disappointed, however. On Dec. 10, 2013, researchers presented science results from the comet's last days at the 2013 Fall American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, Calif. They described how this unique comet lost mass in advance of reaching perihelion and most likely broke up during its closest approach, as well, as summarized what this means for determining what the comet was made of. The panel shared results from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and MESSENGER to present a picture of ISON's trip around the sun, which appears to have led to its demise. The panel also reported on why ISON was not seen in images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). || ", "hits": 86 }, { "id": 11422, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11422/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-22T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Solar Observing Fleet Watch Comet ISON's Journey Around the Sun", "description": "After several days of continued observations, scientists continue to work to determine and to understand the fate of Comet ISON: There's no doubt that the comet shrank in size considerably as it rounded the sun and there's no doubt that something made it out on the other side to shoot back into space. The question remains as to whether the bright spot seen moving away from the sun was simply debris, or whether a small nucleus of the original ball of ice was still there. Regardless, it is likely that it is now only dust. The comet was visible in instruments on NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, and the joint European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, via images called coronagraphs.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Credit:NASA/STEREO/ESA/SOHO/SDOGSFC || STEREO_A_Cor2_Still.jpg (1280x720) [494.6 KB] || STEREO_A_Cor2_Still_web.png (320x180) [67.2 KB] || ISON_Full_FINAL_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [49.4 MB] || ISON_Full_FINAL_appletv.m4v (960x540) [46.4 MB] || ISON_Full_H264_1280x720_30.mov (1280x720) [43.1 MB] || ISON_Full_MPEG4_1280X720_29.97.mp4 (1280x720) [28.0 MB] || ISON_Full_FINAL_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [16.6 MB] || ISON_Full_FINAL_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [17.5 MB] || ISON_Full_FINAL.mp4 (320x240) [8.3 MB] || ISON_Full_FINAL_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [8.3 MB] || ISON_Full_ProRes_1280x720_29.97.mov (1280x720) [810.6 MB] || ISON_Full_H264_Best_1280x720_29.97.mov (1280x720) [517.2 MB] || ISON_Full_H264_Good_1280x720_29.97.mov (1280x720) [124.1 MB] || ISON_Full_FINAL_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [124.1 MB] || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 40157, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/other-sungrazing-comets/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2013-11-20T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Other Sungrazing Comets", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 2 }, { "id": 40158, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/comet-ison/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2013-11-20T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Comet ISON", "description": "Catalogued as C/2012 S1, Comet ISON was first spotted 585 million miles away in September 2012. This is ISON's very first trip into the inner solar system. That means it is still made of pristine matter from the earliest days of the solar system’s formation, its top layers never having been lost by a trip near the sun. Along Comet ISON's journey, NASA has used a vast fleet of spacecraft and Earth-based telescopes to learn more about this time capsule from when the solar system first formed.During the last week of its inbound trip, ISON will enter the fields of view of NASA’s space-based solar observatories. Comet ISON will be viewed first by NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO. Next the comet will be seen in what’s called coronagraphs by both STEREO and the joint European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO. Then, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory will view the comet for a few hours during its closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion.", "hits": 174 }, { "id": 30362, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30362/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-22T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Full Map of the Sun's Surface", "description": "This movie shows the evolution of the Sun's entire surface as seen in extreme ultraviolet light (304 angstroms) for the time period Jan 1 - Sep 27, 2012. The movie was made by combining nearly simultaneous view of the Sun from three spacecraft: STEREO AHEAD and BEHIND (seeing the Sun's far side) and the Solar Dynamic Observer (seeing the near side). This EUV light comes primarily from the solar chromosphere. The bright patches are active regions. Many dark prominence eruptions can also be seen. The data is plotted in Carrington coordinates which are \"fixed\" to the surface of the Sun. In this coordinate system, the active regions tend to stay at the same location. However, the Sun's rotation rate actually changes with latitude and this can be seen in the movie. || ", "hits": 578 }, { "id": 30081, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30081/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Stereo Captures Eruption and CME", "description": "On May 1, 2013, NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Ahead (STEREO-A) satellite along with its twin STEREO Behind (STEREO-B), observed an active region (right) of the sun erupt. This eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, sent plasma streaming out through the solar system. STEREO has an extreme ultraviolet camera similar to the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite, but it also has coronagraph telescopes like the European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) where the bright sun is blocked by a disk so it does not overpower the fainter solar atmosphere. As a result, using its two inner coronagraphs, STEREO was able to track the CME from the solar surface out to 6.3 million miles. || ", "hits": 39 }, { "id": 40151, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/heliophysics-fleet-past-present-future/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2013-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Heliophysics Fleet - Past - Present - Future", "description": "Orbits and trajectories of many missions observing the Sun and the near-Earth environment.", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 11307, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11307/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-07-16T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "What is a Sungrazing Comet?", "description": "Sungrazing comets are a special class of comets that come very close to the sun at their nearest approach, a point called perihelion. To be considered a sungrazer, a comet needs to get within about 850,000 miles from the sun at perihelion. Many come even closer, even to within a few thousand miles. Being so close to the sun is very hard on comets for many reasons. They are subjected to a lot of solar radiation which boils off their water or other volatiles. The physical push of the radiation and the solar wind also helps form the tails. And as they get closer to the sun, the comets experience extremely strong tidal forces, or gravitational stress. In this hostile environment, many sungrazers do not survive their trip around the sun. Although they don't actually crash into the solar surface, the sun is able to destroy them anyway. Many sungrazing comets follow a similar orbit, called the Kreutz Path, and collectively belong to a population called the Kreutz Group. In fact, close to 85% of the sungrazers seen by the SOHO satellite are on this orbital highway. Scientists think one extremely large sungrazing comet broke up hundreds, or even thousands, of years ago, and the current comets on the Kreutz Path are the leftover fragments of it. As clumps of remnants make their way back around the sun, we experience a sharp increase in sungrazing comets, which appears to be going on now. Comet Lovejoy, which reached perihelion on December 15, 2011 is the best known recent Kreutz-group sungrazer. And so far, it is the only one that NASA's solar-observing fleet has seen survive its trip around the sun. Comet ISON, an upcoming sungrazer with a perihelion of 730,000 miles on November 28, 2013, is not on the Kreutz Path. In fact, ISON's orbit suggests that it may gain enough momentum to escape the solar system entirely, and never return. Before it does so, it will pass within about 40 million miles from Earth on December 26th. Assuming it survives its trip around the sun. || ", "hits": 163 }, { "id": 11298, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11298/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-06-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sun Emits a Solstice CME", "description": "On June 20, 2013, at 11:24 p.m., the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later. These particles cannot travel through the atmosphere to harm humans on Earth, but they can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory and ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 1350 miles per second, which is a fast speed for CMEs. Earth-directed CMEs can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when they funnel energy into Earth's magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere, for an extended period of time. The CME's magnetic fields peel back the outermost layers of Earth's fields changing their very shape. Magnetic storms can degrade communication signals and cause unexpected electrical surges in power grids. They also can cause aurora. Storms are rare during solar minimum, but as the sun's activity ramps up every 11 years toward solar maximum—currently expected in late 2013—large storms occur several times per year.In the past, geomagnetic storms caused by CMEs of this strength and direction have usually been mild. In addition, the CME may pass by additional spacecraft: Messenger, STEREO B, Spitzer, and their mission operators have been notified. If warranted, operators can put spacecraft into safe mode to protect the instruments from the solar material. || ", "hits": 143 }, { "id": 11286, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11286/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-06-04T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "IRIS L-14 Media Briefing", "description": "Lying just above the sun's surface is an enigmatic region of the solar atmosphere called the interface region. A relatively thin region, just 3,000 to 6,000 miles thick, it pulses with movement: zones of different temperature and density are scattered throughout, while energy and heat course through the solar material. Understanding how the energy travels through this region – energy that helps heat the upper layer of the atmosphere, the corona, to temperatures of 1,000,000 kelvins, some thousand times hotter than the sun’s surface itself – is the goal of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, scheduled to launch on June 26, 2013 from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. Scientists wish to understand the interface region in exquisite detail, since energy flowing through this region has an effect on so many aspects of near-Earth space. For one thing, despite the intense amount of energy deposited into the interface region, only a fraction leaksthrough, but this fraction drives the solar wind, the constant stream of particles that flows out to fill the entire solar system. The interface region is also the source of most of the sun's ultraviolet emission, which impacts both the near-Earth space environment and Earth's climate. IRIS's capabilities are uniquely tailored to unravel the interface region by providing both high-resolution images and a kind of data known as spectra, which can see many wavelengths at once. For its high-resolution images, IRIS will capture data on about one percent of the sun at a time. While these are relatively small snapshots, IRIS will be able to see very fine features, as small as 150 miles across. || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 11285, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11285/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-05-13T10:30:00-04:00", "title": "First X-Class Solar Flares of 2013", "description": "On May 13, 2013, the sun emitted an X2.8-class flare, peaking at 12:05 p.m. EDT. This is the the strongest X-class flare of 2013 so far, surpassing in strength the X1.7-class flare that occurred 14 hours earlier. It is the 16th X-class flare of the current solar cycle and the third-largest flare of that cycle. The second-strongest was an X5.4 event on March 7, 2012. The strongest was an X6.9 on Aug. 9, 2011.On May 12, 2013, the sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 10 p.m. EDT. This flare is classified as an X1.7, making it the first X-class flare of 2013. The flare was also associated with another solar phenomenon, called a coronal mass ejection (CME) that can send solar material out into space. This CME was not Earth-directed. The May 12 flare was also associated with a coronal mass ejection, another solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space, which can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models show that the CME left the sun at 745 miles per second and is not Earth-directed, however its flank may pass by the STEREO-B and Spitzer spacecraft, and their mission operators have been notified. If warranted, operators can put spacecraft into safe mode to protect the instruments from solar material. There is some particle radiation associated with this event, which is what can concern operators of interplanetary spacecraft since the particles can trip computer electronics on board. || ", "hits": 129 }, { "id": 10785, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10785/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-05-07T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Heliophysics Fleet Captures May 1, 2013 Prominence Eruption and CME", "description": "On May 1, 2013, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) watched as an active region just around the East limb (left edge) of the sun erupted with a huge cloud of solar material—a heated, charged gas called plasma. This eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, sent the plasma streaming out through the solar system. Viewing the sun in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 angstroms, SDO provided a beautiful view of the initial arc as it left the solar surface. Such eruptions soon leave SDO's field of view, but other satellites in NASA's Heliophysics fleet can pick them up, tracking such space weather to determine if they are headed toward Earth or spacecraft near other planets. With advance warning, many space assets can be put into safe mode and protect themselves from the effects of such particle radiation.In addition to the images captured by SDO, the May 1, 2013 CME was also observed by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). SOHO houses two overlapping coronagraphs—telescopes where the bright sun is blocked by a disk so it doesn't overpower the fainter solar atmosphere—and they both saw the CME continue outward. The LASCO C2 coronagraph shows the region out to about 2.5 million miles. The LASCO C3 coronagraph expands even farther out to around 13.5 million miles. Both of these instruments show the CME as it expands and becomes fainter on its trip away from the sun.NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) Ahead satellite saw the eruption from a very different angle. It, along with its twin STEREO Behind, is orbiting at a similar distance as Earth. STEREO-A orbits slightly faster than Earth and STEREO-B orbits slightly slower. Currently, STEREO-A is more than two-thirds of the way to being directly behind the sun, and has a view of the far side of the sun. From this perspective, the CME came off the right side of the sun. STEREO has an extreme ultraviolet camera similar to SDO's, but it also has coronagraphs like SOHO. As a result, using its two inner coronagraphs, it was able to track the CME from the solar surface out to 6.3 million miles.Working together, such missions provide excellent coverage of a wide variety of solar events, a wealth of scientific data—and lots of beautiful imagery.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 142 } ] }