SDO Collects Its 100-Millionth Image of the Sun

On January 19, 2015, at 12:49 p.m. EST, the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured its 100 millionth image of the sun. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, or AIA, uses four telescopes working parallel to gather eight images of the sun – cycling through 10 different wavelengths — every 12 seconds. Between the […]
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