NASA Solar Satellite's First Sun Images 103
coondoggie writes "NASA today showed off the amazing first pictures of the Sun taken from its 6,800lb Solar Dynamics Observatory flying at an orbit 22,300 miles above Earth. The first images show a variety of activity NASA says provide never-before-seen detail of material streaming outward and away from sunspots. Others show extreme close-ups of activity on the sun's surface. The spacecraft also has made the first high-resolution measurements of solar flares in a broad range of extreme ultraviolet wavelengths."
Careful! (Score:5, Funny)
6800 lbs? (Score:4, Funny)
Whoa. But... (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently iTunes has morphed into a unit of scale. What is that in Library of Congresses?
Nerds (Score:4, Funny)
Normal guy: How much do you think that chick weighs?
Slashdot guy: How much do you think that satellite weighs?
Sounds about right.
Re:Careful! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pretty pictures (Score:3, Funny)
and for those of you that have, I hear they're going to release it in braille too.
Re:Careful! (Score:4, Funny)
if you look at the article directly, you'll burn out your retinas!
I don't think any /. readers will be affected.
The detail is amazing (Score:5, Funny)
If you look closely, you can see the flag that Louis Armstrong planted on the surface.
Obama politics (Score:2, Funny)
Take remote pictures of it from an unmanned observatory.
-Under George W. we would have landed there!