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Monday, February 24, 2020
Lunar Transit Last Night!
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Yesterday, from 6:00--8:33 pm, the Moon moved between SDO and the Sun. These lunar transits happen a few times each year. Here is the FOT ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Station Keeping Maneuver #20 Today
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SDO will execute Station Keeping Maneuver #20 today at 2230 UTC (5:30 p.m. ET). From 2200 to 2250 UTC (5:00-5:50 p.m. ET) science data may b...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Happy Anniversary SDO!
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Ten years ago, 11 Feb 2010, SDO rose majestically into the Florida skies. Since that day we have taken and recorded over 350 million images ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Calibration Maneuvers Today
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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 ...
Monday, January 6, 2020
Happy Perihelion!
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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 147,091,14...
Sunday, November 17, 2019
200 Millionth Image from AIA
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In all the hype about the Mercury transit last Monday, we overlooked another milestone in the SDO mission. On November 5, 2019, the AIA inst...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Extraordinary Pictures of the 2019 Mercury Transit
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Here are composite views of Monday's transit (top) and the transit in 2016 (bottom). They were produced by Monica Bobra at Stanford Univ...
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