2005: Launched ten years ago this week SOHO still enjoys an uninterrupted view of the Sun. Twelve sun gazing instruments on board the space craft have explored the Sun's internal structure, the extensive solar atmosphere and solar wind, and discovered over 1,000 comets from a remarkable orbit around a point about 1.5 million kilometers directly sunward of planet Earth itself. At that location, known as a Lagrange point, the gravitational influence of the Earth and Sun are equal. With scientific instrument teams distributed around the world, the SOHO operations center is located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Mission operations are planned through March of 2007 to allow the study of a complete 11-year-solar cycle. I chose this image because I thought it was really cool how they had so many different things in one picture and I also thought it was cool how that was the view that SOHO had of the Sun.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
SOHO's Uninterrupted View of the Sun
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Sarah, I would love to see the image of this picture...consider that your other readers would like to see it too. For next week, try using the "Insert Picture" button on the formatting toolbar when you are writing your next blog. I know you can do it...post a pic next week of anything.
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