SDO Collects Its 100,000,000th Image On Jan. 19, 2015, at 12:49 - TopicsExpress



          

SDO Collects Its 100,000,000th Image On Jan. 19, 2015, at 12:49 p.m. EST, an instrument on NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory captured its 100 millionth image of the sun. The instrument is the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, or AIA, which uses four telescopes working parallel to gather eight images of the sun – cycling through 10 different wavelengths -- every 12 seconds. Read more: nasa.gov/content/goddard/sdo-telescope-collects-its-100-millionth-image/index.html#.VL6wZlqFyzI Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:44:51 +0000

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