Saturday, April 24, 2010

Images from solar satellite

Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_517763.html
Apr 22, 2010



PHOTO: This image made from an April 12-13, 2010 video provided by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) shows an eruptive prominence blasting away from the sun. The prominence appears to stretch almost halfway across the sun, about 500,000 miles.
PHOTO: AP
http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/image/20100422/solarflare1.jpg


BOULDER (Colorado) - NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has unveiled the first images from a new satellite designed to predict disruptive solar storms, and scientists say they're already learning new things.


PHOTO: http://standeyo.com/NEWS/06_Earth_Changes/06_Earth_Change_pics/060307.solar.flare.jpg



PHOTO: http://www.lunarbaltic.lv/gallery/sol/sun2_trace%20ultraviolet.jpg


Researchers showed off brightly coloured images and short movie clips of the sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory in a webcast on Wednesday.



PHOTO: http://www.pta.edu.pl/orion/apodmain/apod/image/0606/sun2_trace.jpg



PHOTO: http://solarmuri.ssl.berkeley.edu/~welsch/brian/small_sun.gif



PHOTO: http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/Images/troucoronal-yohkoh.jpg


The satellite was launched Feb 11. Dean Pesnell, the chief scientist, says it already has disproved at least one theory, but he didn't give any details.



PHOTO: http://www.lunarplanner.com/Images/solar_filament_trace.jpg



PHOTO: http://www.astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~bruno/APOD/time040.gif


Richard Fisher, director of Nasa's heliophysics division, says the satellite is operating flawlessly.



PHOTO: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has unveiled the first images, such as the one above, of an erupting prominence on the sun, from a satellite designed to predict disruptive solar storms. Researchers showed off brightly-coloured images and short movie clips of the sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory in a webcast on Wednesday. Chief scientist Dean Pesnell says the satellite, launched on Feb 11, has already helped researchers to discover new things. AP
From: Storms in Space - TODAY, FRIDAY, 22.04.2010, PAGE 38.jpg



PHOTO: http://82.143.209.25/asp/solsystemet/solen.jpg



PHOTO: http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/news/solarflare.jpg

It carries three instrument packages, one built by the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and two built by Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto, California.
AP.



PHOTO: http://www.kaheel7.com/userimages/sun_quran_5.JPG


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