Friday, June 4, 2010

Everything

Ultraviolet image of the sun taken by SDO on March 30, 2010. Reds are relatively cool (about 60,000 Kelvin, or 107,540 F); blues and greens are hotter (greater than 1 million Kelvin, or 1,799,540 F). SDO will send 1.5 terabytes of data back to Earth each day.