Journey Into The Sun - KQED QUEST

Scientists at Stanford University and Lockheed Martin are playing pivotal roles in a nearly billion-dollar NASA mission to explore the sun. A spacecraft launched in early 2010 is obtaining IMAX-like images of the sun every second of the day, generating more data than any NASA mission in history. The data will allow researchers to learn about solar storms and other phenomena that can cause blackouts and harm astronauts.

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• sdo
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• helioseismology
• magnetic waves
• sound waves
• nasa
• lockheed-martin
• lmsal
• stanford solar physics HEPL

[narnyslip]

This is a perfect example of why we will never make it as a race!!!! When you look at the big picture of how unique our planet is and all the things that can go wrong eg meteor strike, solar flare, enviromental disasters and so on and so on and so on! Yet we bikker amongst ourselves and fight, war, starvation etc.. The first step to evolving is to all get along and we are so far off that its not funny. Not sure weather we are the right race to be on this planet??

[olhapful]

"The data will allow researchers to learn about solar storms and other phenomena that can cause blackouts and harm astronauts."??? What about ...that can cause BIGTIME issues for every person on this planet? Great imagery,by the way. I appreciate what ya'll are doing but it is WAY understated.

[Baktun1]

Thank you very much for uploading this video, it's very informative.

[datachip]

Best report I have seen on SDO. Generous with details, and very clear. Very well done. Bravo!