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In this SDO solar eclipse image the moon's shadow has been replaced by an actual moon image taken by LRO.

The Moon and Sun: Two NASA Missions Join Images

NASA visualizers overlay a 3-dimensional model of the moon based on data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter into the shadow of the moon during ...

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composite SDO image of sun from April 2012-April 2013

Three Years of SDO Images

Since it first provided images of the sun in spring 2010, SDO has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun's rise toward solar maximum.

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NASA's SDO Sees an Eclipse And a Transit

On Mar. 11, 2013, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught a rare sight on camera: the sun with both Earth and the moon passing in front of it.

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Goddard Sunday Experiment about SDO Solar Mission

01.10.13 - NASA's Goddard Visitor Center will host this month's Sunday Experiment on Sunday, Jan. 20 from 1 to 3 p.m. EST around the SDO mission.

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Latest SDO AIA Image

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This image taken by SDO's AIA instrument at 171 Angstrom shows the current conditions of the quiet corona and upper transition region of the Sun.

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