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The First 360 view of the Full Sun

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Uploaded by on Feb 6, 2011

From NASA Heliophysics. Seeing the whole sun front and back simultaneously will enable significant advances in space weather forecasting for Earth, and improve planning for future robotic or crewed spacecraft missions throughout the solar system.

These views are the result of observations by NASA's two Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft. The duo are on diametrically opposite sides of the sun, 180 degrees apart. One is ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind.

Launched in October 2006, STEREO traces the flow of energy and matter from the sun to Earth. It also provides unique and revolutionary views of the sun-Earth system. The mission observed the sun in 3-D for the first time in 2007. In 2009, the twin spacecraft revealed the 3-D structure of coronal mass ejections which are violent eruptions of matter from the sun that can disrupt communications, navigation, satellites and power grids on Earth.

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  • @azeeex

    you do know what a girl is, right?

  • @abu3leish you obviously don't know how physics works.

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  • @REDTEAM22003 Lol great comment XD.

  • @REDTEAM22003 Not sure if trolling, or being serious.

  • @staphinfection Something like half of a percent is being used by NASA.

    Your money is being wasted on far stupider things.

    Besides knowing how the sun works may be able to help prevent damage to our satellites and electronics.

  • @abu3leish ...because then the satellite would fall towards the sun since there is no velocity to keep it in a balanced orbit :/

  • This film is cool! I hadn't even considered NASA/other space organisations were doing this!

  • @REDTEAM22003 rofl

  • because there is such a thing as magnetic fields, and it means anything rotates with a planet, i.e why our Moon rotates around our planet? Why we rotate around the sun. Are you dumb, or are you just acting retarded?

  • This is cool but its fake, there no info about this in the bible.

  • smile:))

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