News
October 26, 2006
STEREO Probes Launch
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on October 26, 2006 at 3:15:16 PM
NASA has successfully launched the twin probes to study the sun. Images should be returning by the end of this year. I'm glad that we'll be getting some great images - just like SOHO in the past.
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"We are at the dawning of a new age of solar observations," Russ Howard of the US Naval Research Laboratory said at a NASA news conference on Tuesday. "We're going to be viewing things in a new dimension for us." Howard said STEREO would have an unprecedented "broadside" view of the entire relationship between the Sun and the Earth. Scientists hope the mission will glean insight into solar activities such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), the most violent explosions in the solar system.
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