LAUNCHED
OCTOBER 25, 2006
8:52 p.m. EDT
1st LUNAR SWINGBY:
DECEMBER 15, 2006
2nd LUNAR SWINGBY:
JANUARY 21, 2007
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 APL Spacecraft Experts Help Capture a Solar Storm in 3-DThe APL–built and –operated twin STEREO observatories have made the first 3-D measurements of solar explosions, known as coronal mass ejections, enabling scientists to see their size and shape, and image them as they travel approximately 93 million miles from the sun to Earth.
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 APL-developed STEREO animations sizzle on the big screen in “3D Sun,” a digital 3-D film now showing at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C.. Mission scientists unveil STEREO’s 3-D images of the sun to help us understand why this fiery ball is so important to us. Moviegoers get a close-up view of auroras over the artic circle and take a ride on a solar blast from the sun’s surface to Earth.
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STEREO Explores Gravitational "Parking Lots" That May Hold Secret of Moon's Origin
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Launching to a New Frontier in Solar Research |
Photo credit: Boeing/Carleton Bailie |
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Seeing the Sun in 3-D
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