Revealing the nature of the Sun’s atmosphere, the links between its magnetic fields and coronal mass ejections, and even discovering more than 1,000 comets, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has spent 10 years of its operations. So, with all rights the observatory will be celebrating its 10th anniversary on December 2nd, 2005. To celebrate the achievements of the world’s flagship solar probe, scientists are gathering at CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. It has revolutionized our understanding of our star, the Sun, and its impacts on the Earth.
Noreen Grice has also come up with a tactile graphic book for the blind about space and astronomy, a NASA Braille Book, ‘Touch the Sun‘ to be inaugurated on the day to add on to the celebration. The 12 instruments on board SOHO probe the Sun’s every detail. They are monitoring the complex, violent solar atmosphere, the charged gases that the Sun expels into space and examining the solar interior. It is the mission that revealed the true nature of the Sun’s violent atmosphere as it flings clouds into space. It also revealed as huge magnetic loops tie themselves in knots to generate solar flare explosions.
Via: Universe Today
SOHO Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Operations
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