Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Calibration Maneuvers Today

Today from 1315-1915 UTC (8:15 am - 2:15 pm ET) SDO will perform the EVE Field of View and HMI/AIA Flatfield calibration maneuvers. Science data recorded during these maneuvers may be missing, incomplete, or blurry.

Monday, January 6, 2020

Happy Perihelion!

On January 5, 2020, at 0547 UTC (2:47 am ET) the Earth reached perihelion in its orbit around the Sun. At that time the Earth was 147,091,144 km (91,381,199 mi) from the Sun. The Earth's will reach aphelion, the point in our elliptical orbit furthest from the Sun, on June 4, 2020. Enjoy the closest of our favorite star, the Sun!