SDO News Features

EVE: Measuring the Sun's Hidden Variability

The extreme ultraviolet (EUV) sun imaged by SOHO over one complete solar cycle
09.22.09

To monitor energetic solar photons, NASA is going to launch a sensor named "EVE," short for EUV Variability Experiment, onboard SDO this winter.

› Read More

Avalanche! The Incredible Data Stream of SDO

Photograph of the sun appearing blue, taken by an ultraviolet camera onboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft
08.06.09

When NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) leaves Earth in November 2009 onboard an Atlas V rocket, the thunderous launch will trigger an avalanche...of data.

› Read More

Solar Observatory Arrives at Kennedy Space Center

The truck carrying the SDO satellite arrived during a summertime thunderstorm's downpour.
07.10.09

NASA's upcoming mission to study the sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on July 9.

› Read More

SDO Movies

SDO Interactive

Related Links