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Solar Vector Magnetograph is used to predict solar flares, and other activities associated with sun spots. This...
During the August 2017 total solar eclipse, scientists will use the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on the...
On July 24, 2016, NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, captured a mid-level solar flare: a sudden...
Solar scientists Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy, Nelson Reginal, Eric Christian, and Sarah Jaeggli discuss the 2016 eclipse...
This is a photograph of a technician checking on a solar array wing for the Orbital Workshop as it is deployed. A...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., engineers perform testing on the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., technicians prepare to deploy the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., the deployed solar panel on the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., the solar panel on the STEREO...
On March 29, 2014 the sun released an X-class flare. It was observed by NASA's Interface Region Imaging...
NASA Commentator George Diller opens countdown coverage for the Atlas V launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory was thoroughly tested and processed to make sure it would handle launch and the ride...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., the Solar Electron and Proton...
This movie from NASA’s SDO shows a solar flare — the bright light on the left side of the sun — on July 8, 2014. An...
On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STEREO observatories are the focus of attention at a media viewing held at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STEREO observatories are the focus of attention at a media viewing held at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., workers prepare one of the STEREO...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STEREO observatories are the focus of attention at a media viewing held at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., technicians perform black-light...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the hazardous processing facility at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla.,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STEREO observatories are the focus of attention at a media viewing held at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The STEREO observatories are the focus of attention at a media viewing held at...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., one of the STEREO observatories is...