Gogblog's Monday video rewind picture show: "Sentinels of the Heliosphere," a detailed look at the fleet of spacecraft that keeps a collective eye on our stormy sun
[Um…. Make that the TUESDAY video rewind picture show. We had a network outage yesterday, so sorry about that. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming. . . ]
Given the recent upturn in stormy solar activity, it seemed a good time to revisit the spectacular piece of visualization known as Sentinels of the Heliosphere. This video debuted in 2009 at SIGGRAPH, an international conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques.
http://www.youtube.com/v/AqRQ_93kFKs?fs=1&hl=en_US
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Your nice video missed an important one of NASA’s Sun-related missions: the SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), that has been monitoring total solar irradiance (TSI) and spectral solar irradiance (SSI) with unprecedented accuracy since 2003. These quantities (TSI and SSI) are of special interest to humanity, because the TSI determines the absolute luminosity of the Sun, and also (along with Earth’s albedo) the total solar energy absorbed by Earth. We know that variations in both TSI and SSI are forcing changes in Earth’s climate, on which life depends. The comprehensive SSI measurements of SORCE have the first of their kind. NASA has partnered with University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics, and the SORCE mission’s website is lasp.colorado.edu/sorce where anyone can view and download the data. See also sunclimate.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thanks for that info. I believe this video came out last summer. Not sure why SORCE is not included…
Your nice video missed an important one of NASA’s Sun-related missions: the SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), that has been monitoring total solar irradiance (TSI) and spectral solar irradiance (SSI) with unprecedented accuracy since 2003. These quantities (TSI and SSI) are of special interest to humanity, because the TSI determines the absolute luminosity of the Sun, and also (along with Earth’s albedo) the total solar energy absorbed by Earth. We know that variations in both TSI and SSI are forcing changes in Earth’s climate, on which life depends. The comprehensive SSI measurements of SORCE have the first of their kind. NASA has partnered with University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics, and the SORCE mission’s website is lasp.colorado.edu/sorce where anyone can view and download the data. See also sunclimate.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thanks for that info. I believe this video came out last summer. Not sure why SORCE is not included…