De Jose Manuel Nieves in Science
In October 2006, NASA launched two spacecraft toward the Sun twins, but each of them headed for the sun king following diametrically opposite directions. The mission STEREO called and was seeking for the first time, a stereoscopic image and full sun, observed at the same time from different angles. Yesterday, after four years, the space agency has met its ambitious goals and has posted the first images
"full" and 3D of our Sun After a joint journey of 470 million km., Both ships have been found, on the opposite side of the Earth's orbit, on the other side of the sun, and have finally finished its primary mission. During their journey, the two probes have been facilitating its control center (the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland) valuable information on how it affects our planet, the continuous flow of energy that flows from our particular star.
In 2009, the two spacecraft STEREO mission revealed in three dimensions, the dual structure of coronal mass ejections, which are violent eruptions of matter from the sun, also known as solar storms. These ejections can disrupt communications, disrupt satellites and power grids on Earth."says New images NASA said in a statement,
help improve the planning of future missions robotic spacecraft or crew to the solar system. "
Since they were launched in 2006, each of the two probes has photographed and filmed in detail half of our star, sent to Earth all the images. Here, researchers have combined the two "views" to create a sphere. It is not, however, conventional photography. In fact, craft instruments have captured the Sun in four different wavelengths (all in the ultraviolet), carefully selected to study specific aspects of solar activity, including flares, Tsunami solar magnetic filaments.
But that does not happen again. Even the most remote spots and hidden from our direct view may be accessible and not take us by surprise again.
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