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Criss-Crossing Lunar Transit

On Mar. 6, 2019, SDO observed a long lunar transit - with a twist. The shadow of the Moon in SDO's i
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File Server Outage on SDO Website - Tues, 16 Sep

There has been a temporary outage of the browse data on the SDO Website at NASA Goddard. Fortunately...

New AI Model based on SDO Data - Wed, 20 Aug

Surya Heliophysics Foundation Model was trained on nine years of SDO data, and will improve pre...

Eclipse Season #31 begins, featuring the Sun, Earth and Moon - Wed, 09 Jul

07:21 UT on July 10, 2025, and will last until August 7.  SDO's orbit is geosynchronous, inclin...

The Flare-ometer is at X-level again - Wed, 18 Jun

Solar flares are classified using the X-ray brightness (see an explanation here), and "X class" flar...

Four Lunar Transits April-July 2025 - Sat, 29 Mar

There are lunar transits on April 27, 2025 and April 28, 2025. Here are the movies from the SDO Fli...
 

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