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'Spectacular' First Images from New Solar Observatory Released

Started by mickw, Apr 22, 2010, 08:16:34

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The first images of the sun beamed home from NASA's newest solar observatory have wowed mission scientists with their extraordinary detail and unexpected findings.

NASA released the first new images today from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a probe launched on Feb. 11 to peer deep into the layers of the sun, monitor solar storms and investigate the mysteries of the sun's inner workings.

"The spacecraft and the instruments are working very well," said Richard Fisher, director of the Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. "What we've seen is truly, in my view, spectacular."

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Growing Old is mandatory - Growing Up is optional

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Growing Old is mandatory - Growing Up is optional

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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan

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Growing Old is mandatory - Growing Up is optional