Since it first provided images of the sun in spring 2010, SDO has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun's rise toward solar maximum.
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Goddard Sunday Experiment about SDO Solar Mission
01.10.13 - NASA's Goddard Visitor Center will host this month's Sunday Experiment on Sunday, Jan. 20 from 1 to 3 p.m. EST around the SDO mission.
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Local Media Invited to NASA Goddard for Transit of Venus Event
05.29.12 - Local media are invited to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's public event on June 5 from 5 to 8 p.m. EDT to celebrate the Transit of Venus.
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Public Invited to Goddard Visitor Center For Transit of Venus
05.24.12 - The public is invited to the Goddard Visitor Center for our Transit of Venus watch party and celebration that will include presentations, near real-time SDO images of the transit and other events.
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Three Years of SDO Images
NASA's SDO Sees an Eclipse And a Transit
On Mar. 11, 2013, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught a rare sight on camera: the sun with both Earth and the moon passing in front of it.
SDO Shows A Little Rain On the Sun
On July 19, 2012, the sun treated viewers to one of its dazzling magnetic displays -- a phenomenon known as coronal rain.
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Testing and Integration Videos →
This series of videos shows SDO as engineers put it through the paces at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.