NASA video of Sunspots and Solar Flares

30-second video clip shot by NASA’s SOHO – Solar & Heliospheric Observatory. This timelapse video shows 3 days of recorded video footage in 30 seconds.  Watch the rotating sun with active sunspots and solar flares.

About the SOHO Mission

SOHO, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, is a project of international collaboration between ESA and NASA to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind.

SOHO was launched on December 2, 1995. The SOHO spacecraft was built in Europe by an industry team led by prime contractor Matra Marconi Space (now EADS Astrium) under overall management by ESA. The twelve instruments on board SOHO were provided by European and American scientists. Nine of the international instrument consortia are led by European Principal Investigators (PI’s), three by PI’s from the US. Large engineering teams and more than 200 co-investigators from many institutions supported the PI’s in the development of the instruments and in the preparation of their operations and data analysis. NASA was responsible for the launch and is now responsible for mission operations. Large radio dishes around the world which form NASA’s Deep Space Network are used for data downlink and commanding. Mission control is based at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

For more information visit: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/home.html

 

 

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0alRDff8Do

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