Since ultraviolet radiation is blocked by Earth's atmosphere, this kind of photography must be done from orbit.
This beautiful image is courtesy of the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer. TRACE is a mission of the Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research (a joint program of the Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Center's Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory and Stanford's Solar Observatories Group ), and part of the NASA Small Explorer program.
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To: petuniasevan
Thank you for the daily ping. All the pictures are amazing.
7 posted on
05/08/2002 5:47:36 AM PDT by
DallasGal
To: petuniasevan
Is that a host blocking part of the sun ???
old inside joke, hehe
8 posted on
05/08/2002 6:00:37 AM PDT by
fnord
To: petuniasevan
Wow! The HF ought to be jammin!
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9 posted on
05/08/2002 6:02:56 AM PDT by
dd5339
To: petuniasevan
Did you remember to send royalty payment to Virgiliu Pop for photographing his sun?
To: petuniasevan
Since ultraviolet radiation is blocked by Earth's atmosphere, this kind of photography must be done from orbit. Beautiful picture! Did you know that some insects can see well into the UV range? I wonder if that was ever a useful ability on Earth.
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05/08/2002 5:22:44 PM PDT by
Helix
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