Satellite Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) started displaying a series of images that have never witnessed before, such a close-up photograph of the surface of the sun and a high resolution image of the sun flames.SDO satellite was launched on February 11 and with the aim of providing information on solar activity and predict solar storms may happen someday.
"This early photo shows the sun is a dynamic I had not seen in more than 40 years of research of the sun," said the director of NASA's Heliophysics Division, Richard Fisher, as quoted from the Herald Sun newspaper pages.
"SDO will change our understanding of the sun and solar processes that affect our lives and society. This mission will have a huge impact on science, similar to the impact of the Hubble telescope in modern astrophysics," continued Fisher.
Fisher added, SDO satellites operate with perfect. SDO brought three packages of instruments that one of them assembled by the Laboratory Atmospheric and Space Physics. Two other instrument designed by Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto, California.
SDO orbits the Earth once every 24 hours, send data continuously to the scholars of the Sun. SDO will send pictures with a resolution 10 times better than the-art television cameras.
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