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GOES-15 Solar X-Ray Imager's Miraculous First Light

NASA image release June 14, 2010

 

This first image of the sun from the GOES-15 SXI instrument from June 2, 2010 was a cause for celebration.

 

To learn more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GOES-P/news/xray_imager.html

 

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.

 

Credit: NASA/NOAA/ Lockheed Martin

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Uploaded on June 14, 2010
Taken on June 2, 2010