NASA SDO Mission Page | 2011 Apr 21
Some of the more interesting images from SDO can be found here and here on the Asterisk* (also on Facebook).April 21, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) "First Light" press conference. "First light" is the event of a telescope capturing its first images.Click to play embedded YouTube video.Video Credit: NASA Heliophysics/GFSC/SDO
Over the past year, the sun has gone from its quietest period in years to the activity marking the beginning of solar cycle 24. SDO has captured every moment with a level of detail never-before possible. The mission has returned unprecedented images of solar flares, eruptions of prominences, and the early stages of coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
[At the website] are some of the most beautiful, interesting, and mesmerizing events seen by SDO during its first year. We would like you to vote for your favorite video from this collection.
This contest will run for two weeks, from Thursday, April 21, 2011 through Thursday May 5, 2011. Check back on May 6 to see which video the public selected as their all-time favorite SDO video from the past year. You may only vote once, so choose carefully!
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