At long last, the Solar Dynamics Observatory is live and the data is publicly available! After a month or so of on-orbit checkouts and calibrations, the instruments that I worked on (HMI and AIA) are now streaming back tons (well, terrabytes really) of data each day in the form of high-resolution pictures of the sun in different wavelengths and properties. There's a lot online that can explain it better than I can, so I'll limit myself to just posting a few of the amazing pictures from the press conference event yesterday. It's exciting to see the pictures finally, and to see that so many other people (around the world) are excited too! Here's to a good 5 (or 10) years of working telescopes.
1 comment:
whoa! that's awesome!
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