SDO / Solar Dynamics Observatory.

[EarthlingX]

Mmmm....

 

[3488]

Thank you eveyone so much for the updates.

Fantastic launch, the Atlas 5 operated flawlessly. :mrgreen:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIBr3wlL4X8[/youtube]

Hopefully the calibrations, geostationary orbit insertion, etc will go smoothly.

Andrew Brown.

 

[EarthlingX]

I hope you will like this:

 

[3488]

I sure do EarthlingX, :mrgreen:

A nice collection of launch imagery.

Below is the groundtack taken by the Atlas 5 during the launch of SDO.

I expect we will not here much now as SDO reaches Geostationary Orbit & calibrates instrumentation. I wonder if there'll be any test obs before geostationary insertion?

Andrew Brown.

 

[Zipi]

Really cool video from the sonic boom of SDO's Atlas 5 rocket: (and it is 720p HD!)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsDEfu8s1Lw[/youtube]

 

[Testing]

Outstanding in your field ZIPI!

 

[EarthlingX]

Wow
I tried .. :

 

[Zipi]

NASA's page about these quite spectacular shockwaves:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010 ... list940097
(it has more videos)

 

[bushwhacker]

Did you notice in the second video on that page that the sundog reformed after the ship had passed thru?

 

[Zipi]

Really nice rollout & launch video of Atlas 5 + SDO:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubWZOiEA5vE[/youtube]

 

[EarthlingX]

'Really nice' is a serious understatement :shock:

 

[MeteorWayne]

Fri, 19 Mar 2010

From Tom Woods, EVE PI



Great news for EVE: all of the EVE subsystems are now turned on and all are
doing very well !!!

We turned on ESP, MEGS-A CCD, and MEGS-B CCD for this first time this
morning. Their dark data look fine. Every component looks healthy.

Quicklook EVE data / images can be seen at http://planet.colorado.edu/
(updated once a minute).

Congratulations and thanks to the EVE team and GSFC SDO project team !!!!"

 

[EarthlingX]

Fri, 19 Mar 2010

From Tom Woods, EVE PI



Great news for EVE: all of the EVE subsystems are now turned on and all are
doing very well !!!

We turned on ESP, MEGS-A CCD, and MEGS-B CCD for this first time this
morning. Their dark data look fine. Every component looks healthy.

Quicklook EVE data / images can be seen at http://planet.colorado.edu/
(updated once a minute).

Congratulations and thanks to the EVE team and GSFC SDO project team !!!!"

This is all dynamic data, like SOHO
Just one, one tiny ..

ok, maybe two :

yea, i have a problem with counting :

Khm .. :roll:

 

[BigBangBong]

bump!

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/firstlight/

:shock: :shock: :shock:

 

[EarthlingX]

A couple of links :

SDO YouTube channel : http://www.youtube.com//SDOmission2009


Compilation of videos :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrmUUcr4HXg[/youtube]

Another show, a bit later :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99skxXgxTCc[/youtube]

 

[CalliArcale]

*drools* It is absolutely beautiful.

 

[EarthlingX]

SDO images are from 2010.04.30 18:00, check what SOHO saw :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql0omEm8DxY[/youtube]

SDO was not watching area of the main action, but details.

 

[nimbus]

*drools* It is absolutely beautiful.

Too bad imbedded youtube widgets don't have that fullscreen toggle button. Gotta go to the source youtube page to see it in HD.

 

[EarthlingX]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10zZxWTu2gg[/youtube]

 

[MeteorWayne]

"SDO has now entered "Phase E," which is the science phase of the mission. All of the instruments and the spacecraft are performing extremely well. SDO is now sending 1.5 Terabytes of data today to Earth, and will continue to do so at least until the end of the prime phase of the mission in 2015."


http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/

 

[EarthlingX]

"SDO has now entered "Phase E," which is the science phase of the mission. All of the instruments and the spacecraft are performing extremely well. SDO is now sending 1.5 Terabytes of data today to Earth, and will continue to do so at least until the end of the prime phase of the mission in 2015."


http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/

Oh, daaaataaa .. :arrow:

Lovely

It's alive, it's alive

 

[MeteorWayne]

Spacecraft Reveals Small Solar Events Have Large Scale Effects WASHINGTON -- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has allowed scientists for the first time to comprehensively view the dynamic nature of storms on the sun. Solar storms have been recognized as a cause of technological problems on Earth since the invention of the telegraph in the 19th century.

The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), one of three instruments aboard SDO, allowed scientists to discover that even minor solar events are never truly small scale. Shortly after AIA opened its doors on March 30, scientists observed a large eruptive prominence on the sun's edge, followed by a filament eruption a third of the way across the star's disk from the eruption.

"Even small events restructure large regions of the solar surface," said Alan Title, AIA principal investigator at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, Calif. "It's been possible to recognize the size of these regions because of the combination of spatial, temporal and area coverage provided by AIA."

The AIA instrument also has observed a number of very small flares that have generated magnetic instabilities and waves with clearly-observed effects over a substantial fraction of the solar surface. The instrument is capturing full-disk images in eight different temperature bands that span 10,000 to 36-million degrees Fahrenheit. This allows scientists to observe entire events that are very difficult to discern by looking in a single temperature band, at a slower rate, or over a more limited field of view.


More here:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/ma ... torms.html

 

[3488]

Autumn Equinox, Earth as viewed from SDO eclipses the Sun.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1d_jldkptM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB3DY26IBWc[/youtube]

Andrew Brown.