Stereo Eclipse

March 12, 2007: When scientists announce they're about to calibrate their instruments, science writers normally put away their pens. It's hard to write a good story about calibration. This may be the exception.

On Feb. 25, 2007, NASA scientists were calibrating some cameras aboard the STEREO-B spacecraft and they pointed the instruments at the sun. Here is what they saw:



The rest of the story, including an awesome video of the event, can be found
HERE.

Comments

  1. Wow! Ya think those big-huge gaping yellow-hot cavities emitting cosmic rays by the trillions could have anything to do with "global warming"?
    Or do they just blow hot streams of C02 at us?

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  2. Pretty spectacular any which way you look at it.

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