Solar eclipse … From space! NASA’s probe captures the moon in front of the sun in stunning images of the “Moon Mountains illuminated by sunlight.”
- NASA’s spacecraft captured the moon from space in front of the sun in a series of amazing images.
- The solar eclipse was not visible from Earth and lasted only 35 minutes, but fell from space to the camera.
- Close-up images of the Solar Dynamics Observatory illuminate the mountain ranges of the moon with rotating solar flares.
- The Leibniz and Doerfel ranges near the moon’s south pole have been identified by NASA experts.
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THE NASA The satellite took amazing images of a partial solar eclipse from a unique point in space, the only place it could be seen.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) took a picture of the Moon passing in front of the Sun at around 05:20 BST (ET 01:20) yesterday.
The transit lasted about 35 minutes, and at its peak the moon covered 67 percent of the fiery surface.
According to experts from SpaceWeather.com, the spacecraft later returned a series of images of the event, showing “Moon Mountains illuminated by solar fire.”
On the surface of the moon, bumps and irregularities can be seen, which have been identified as part of the Leibniz and Doerfel mountain ranges.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured 35-minute partial solar eclipses from a unique point in space – the only place it can be seen.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory took a picture of the Moon passing in front of the sun at BST 05:20 (ET 01:20) yesterday.
According to experts from SpaceWeather.com, the spacecraft returned a series of images of the event, showing “mountains of the moon lit by sunlight.”
Patricio Leon, from Santiago, Chile, compared close-up images of the moon moving over the sun with a topographic map from the Lunar Exploration Orbiter.
During the eclipse, he was able to identify the Leibniz and Doerfel mountain ranges near the south pole of the moon.
also experts SpaceWeather.com “At the peak of the eclipse, the moon covered 67 percent of the sun, and the moon’s mountains were illuminated from behind by sunlight,” he said.
“Such high-resolution images can help the SDO team better understand the telescope.
“They show how light diffracts around SDO’s optics and filter support networks.
“Once these have been calibrated, it is possible to correct the SDO data for instrumental effects and sharpen the sun’s images even more than before.”
Launched in 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory monitors the sun with spacecraft and takes pictures of it every 0.75 seconds.
He also studies the sun’s magnetic field, atmosphere, sunspots, and other aspects that affect activity during the 11-year solar cycle.
The sun has been active for several months now, as the 11-year period of activity, which began in 2019 and is expected to peak in 2025, has shifted to a particularly active period.
The sun’s magnetic poles rotate at the peak of the solar activity cycle, and the solar wind, which is made up of charged particles, carries the magnetic field away from the sun’s surface through the solar system.
This is accompanied by an increase in solar flares and corona mass emissions (CMEs) from the solar surface.
A CME plasma and a significant free magnetic field from the crown of the monitoring sun – the outermost part of the solar atmosphere – enter the solar wind.
CMEs affect the Earth only when they point in the direction of our planet, and they are slower than the flames of the sun because they move more matter.
Patricio Leon, from Santiago, Chile, compared close-up images of the Moon moving around the sun with a topographic map of the Lunar Exploration Orbiter.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), pictured here, studies how solar activity originates and how cosmic air results from this activity.
The energy from the ignition can disrupt the atmospheric field through which radio waves pass, which can cause the navigation and communication signals to be temporarily turned off.
CMEs, on the other hand, have the power to compress the Earth’s magnetic fields by creating currents that drop particles toward the Earth’s poles.
When they react with oxygen and nitrogen, they help create the aurora, also known as the Northern and Southern Lights.
In addition, magnetic changes can affect various human technologies, causing GPS coordinates to move several yards away and overloading power grids when power companies are not ready.
There was no extreme CME or solar flare in the modern world – the last one was the Carrington Incident in 1859 – which caused a geomagnetic storm with aurora visible on a global scale, as well as fires at telegraph stations.
WHAT IS NASA’S SOLAR DYNAMICS OBSERVATION SATELLITE?
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is NASA’s mission to observe the sun since 2010.
Its ultra-HD cameras convert different wavelengths of light into images that people can see, and then the light is colored into a rainbow.
The satellite was launched into orbit on February 11, 2010 from Cape Canaveral.
The SDO includes a set of tools that provide observations that will lead to a more complete understanding of the solar dynamics that cause variability in the Earth’s environment.
One of the many incredible images provided by SDO
The tasks that this set of tools can achieve include measuring ultraviolet light, measuring differences in the sun’s magnet, taking pictures of the chromosphere and inner corona, and capturing changes in the sun that may occur at different times of the solar cycle.
It does this using three different devices: Helisseismic and Magnetic Sculptor; Atmospheric Description Assembly; and the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experience.
Science groups receive this information, then process it, analyze it, archive it, and make it public.
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