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NASA image acquired October 20, 2010
The illustration maps the magnetic field lines emanating from the Sun and their interactions superimposed on an extreme ultraviolet image from SDO. As one can see, the field lines are most dense around active regions, but they also link to other magnetically active areas across the Sun. These magnetic field maps are a recently added feature to the SDO site. Images for every wavelength each day can be found under “view latest images” link on the home page under The Sun Now image. These images are labeled PFSS and are available in different sizes.
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Instrument: AIA (Atmospheric Imaging Assembly)
The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission to be launched for NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) Program, a program designed to understand the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth. SDO is designed to help us understand the Sun's influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously.
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Sunderland District Bristol boneshaker bus 12 : Sunderland District Tramways were in their last throes and had just been renamed Sunderland District Transport when this official photo of bus 12-PT4711 was taken for Ransomes Coachbuilders in February 1925. My old friend the late Bill Davidson remembered riding on these early Bristol buses which, he said, had no resilient mountings for the engine so when they were idling at a stop the vibration was dreadful. This one was sold off after only three years then served Manchester Corporation for three more, after which it ended up as a lorry
February 1925 : official photo, colour by Malcolm Fraser
New iteration for Raven SSTO, Single Stage to Orbit. This isn't the heavy, Discovery. But the smaller one. For example, SpaceX's dragon capsule is 378 Cu Ft, Payload bay of Raven is 1078 Cu Ft. www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/raven.php
Iteration 10, almost clean sheet. U-TBCC propulsion, 6000F thermal resistance, 3D printed graphene airframe, Note the elimination of "blunt nose". Turn around time under 24 hours total from landing to ready for next flight. No external boosters.
Forward Thruster Bay, other then conventional orbital thrusters, also includes a reverse thruster which decelerates the aircraft pre re-entry into atmosphere from 16,500+ mph ground speed to apx 12,000 mph ground speed. Engines re-ignite once in atmosphere so it can fly to it's landing destination, ie not glide.
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Dazzling Duo
As SDO observed in extreme ultraviolet light, a pair of active regions put on quite a show over a three-day period (Feb. 7-10, 2011). The magnetic field lines above the regions produced fluttering arcs waving above them as well as a couple of flares. Another pair of smaller active regions emerges and trails behind the larger ones.
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifts off with the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft for NASA from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on Feb. 11, 2010. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
A huge solar prominence and filament wraps partway around the southwestern hemisphere of the Sun, literally hundreds of thousands of miles long! This is a section of the latest image from SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) 304 camera, which best captures details about the sun’s outer “surface”.
Image courtesy SDO (NASA) and the AIA consortium. Edited by J. Major.
Read more at lightsinthedark.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/monster-sun/
NASA image acquired October 7, 2010
This was a first for SDO and it was visually engaging too. On October 7, 2010, SDO observed its first lunar transit when the new Moon passed directly between the spacecraft (in its geosynchronous orbit) and the Sun. With SDO watching the Sun in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light, the dark Moon created a partial eclipse of the Sun.
These images, while unusual and cool to see, have practical value to the SDO science team. Karel Schrijver of Lockheed-Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Lab explains: "The very sharp edge of the lunar limb allows us to measure the in-orbit characteristics of the telescope e.g., light diffraction on optics and filter support grids. Once these are characterized, we can use that information to correct our data for instrumental effects and sharpen up the images to even more detail."
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Instrument: AIA (Atmospheric Imaging Assembly)
The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission to be launched for NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) Program, a program designed to understand the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth. SDO is designed to help us understand the Sun's influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously.
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifts off with the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft for NASA from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on Feb. 11, 2010. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
SDO launched on February 11, 2010, 10:23 am EST on an Atlas V from SLC 41 from Cape Canaveral.
It will study how solar activity is created and how Space Weather comes from that activity. Measurements of the interior of the Sun, the Sun's magnetic field, the hot plasma of the solar corona, and the irradiance that creates the ionospheres of the planets are our primary data products.
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Original Image Credit(s):
NASA, GSFC, Solar Dynamics Observatory
Images from AIA 193 at NASA SDO's website: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/main/index.html and venustransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/