• Question: What equipment is used on the solar dynamics observatory? Are there telescopes and thermal imaging machines?

    Asked by Superman to Jack on 12 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Jack Carlyle

      Jack Carlyle answered on 12 Nov 2015:


      There are a few different instruments on the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the main one I use is a collection of ten special ultraviolet cameras which observes super hot plasma in the atmosphere. There are also other special cameras which can “see” magnetic field on the surface of the Sun, which is pretty awesome, too.

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