NASA Readies a Satellite to Probe the Sun, Inside and Out
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 14:21
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is what might be called a satellite for the information age. It is designed to provide scientists who study the sun with a torrent of data--the space agency says the observatory will return 150 million bits of data about Earth's host star per second, or about 1.5 terabytes per day. [More]