But there’s one satellite that takes everything that the Sun dishes out and turns it into a near-constant stream of high-quality data, and it’s been doing it for almost 15 years now.
The inner corona is revealed in nearly every image ... Orbiting Earth once every 20 hours or so, the satellite pair will simulate a total solar eclipse for a total of 6 hours out of each of ...
In 1960, in a milestone that would remain classified for more than three decades, the US Air Force, CIA, and private industry partners launched the world’s first photo-snapping satellite into orbit.
it will see the sun eclipsed by the first satellite, and will only be able to see the corona. Scientists want to study the sun’s corona, but it’s almost always obscured by the bright light ...