Showing posts with label Sun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sun. Show all posts

Thursday, 31 December 2009

Solar Eclipse opportunities for 2010

Will you be near one? unlikely for the total solar ecclipse opportunity unless you happen to have a Yacht in the South Pacific Ocean on December 21st 2010

Read more: http://bit.ly/6B39TT

Sunday, 18 October 2009

Sky Map Presentation from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer - IBEX Science Team


IBEX scientists present the first sky map of the Sun's Solar Wind interaction with the Milky Way Galaxy as the Solar System passes through the harmful material that exists between the stars

Mission Overview for the Interstellar Boundary Explorer - IBEX


IBEX is a low cost mission to investigate the interaction between the Suns protective Heliosphere and harmful Galactic Cosmic Rays

Friday, 12 June 2009

Brief introduction to NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) due to launch in Nov 09

SDO will study solar cycles, flares, solar wind, magnetic fields and corona heating in order to understand the Sun's behavior and make better predictions of Atmospheric interference to communications. SDO will be placed in geosynchronous orbit above New Mexico and will stream huge amounts of Solar data down to the dedicated ground station specially built for the SDO mission.

SDO Video Playlist

SDO Reading Links