Kennedy Space Center - Lancering Atlas V raket "SDO"
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
THE SDO SPACECRAFT
- Understand how magnetic fields appear, distribute, and disappear from their origin in the solar interior
- Understand the magnetic topologies that give rise to rapid high-energy release processes
- Study and gauge the dynamic processes which influence space weather phenomena
- Study the variations in irradiance and solar structure which occur on short timescales, as well as over the solar cycle
About the SDO Spacecraft
NEWSROOM
September 25, 2007 - SDO Instrument Arrives at Goddard The University of Colorado at Boulder delivered the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE), the first of three Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) instruments, to Goddard Space Flight Center. EVE will measure how much the Sun.s ultraviolet brightness changes.
September 10, 2007 - NASA prepares solar dynamic observatory GREENBELT, Md., 10 (UPI) -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is preparing the first of three Solar Dynamic Observatories to monitor the sun's ultraviolet brightness. The University of Colorado-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics delivered the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment, or EVE, last week to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
