[neverdem]

Images by NASA
WATCHING THE HEAT An image of the Sun taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, top. The craft hovers between the Sun and the Earth in an illustration.

[bkepley]

thassa spicey meata balla

[ElkGroveDan]

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun
Oh, but Mama, that's where the fun is

[cyberdasher]

neat article. . .

If this was an article about SUVs, the Times would almost certainly include a short snippet about how there is a general consensus among environmental scientists about how it is a fact that the emissions from such vehicles negatively impact our climate.

You think the Times would ever realize that the sun generates more change in our climate than humans ever will?

[manwiththehands]

Now we have three days notice before we know

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"

[SlowBoat407]

Battered and somewhat broken, a sentinel stands between the Earth and the Sun, continually watching for impending solar storms and other activities.

Amazingly heroic writing for a Times person. Nice romanticism there.

[chimera]

ESA and NASA did good with this one. Quite an achievement to keep it going all that time (kinda like we did with Pioneer and Voyager). I always wondered where the information came from concerning solar eruptions. I assumed it was ground-based observations, but it was SOHO all along. Good on yer, little topper.

[backhoe]

The Sun has a Thousand Faces--- Thread 3

[wallcrawlr]

[united1000]

SOHO is the little satellite that could!

[Eaker]

Before SOHO, Earth had little or no warning before being hit by a shockwave of high-energy, radioactive particles from the Sun.

Either it can predict a flare before it leaves the Sun or we only get roughly 8 minutes warning.

[MikeD]

I found out not too long ago that SOHO was only supposed to be a 2-year-mission, and space weather monitoring was NOT part of its mission. Now, there's actually talk about sending up a replacement without some of the space weather capability...