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So where's the room going to be where I can just walk in, have a seat, and stare at the sun like in the movie Sunshine?
NASA’s new Solar Dynamics Observatory will take this many pictures of the Sun every minute, with each approaching the visual quality of an IMAX movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_Opera wrote:
<<The San Diego Opera Association (SDO) is a professional opera company located in San Diego, California.
Notable performances include the West Coast premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges.>>
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is what might be called a satellite for the information age. It is designed to provide scientists who study the sun with a torrent of data—the space agency says the observatory will return 150 million bits of data about Earth's host star per second, or about 1.5 terabytes per day.
The spacecraft, known as SDO, is scheduled to launch into orbit at 10:26 A.M. Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, weather permitting. Its data stream is so broad that the observatory will have a dedicated pair of 18-meter radio dishes near Las Cruces, N.M., at its disposal for downlink; the satellite's geosynchronous orbit will keep it within radio range of New Mexico at all times.
