• SDO Lunar transit (August 6, 2013)

    ByChillymanjaro

    For almost 1 1/2 hours the Moon made an appearance in NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory's view on August 6, 2013. The Moon itself looks much bigger than the Sun – as the Moon is many times closer to Earth (and to SDO) than the Sun

  • SDO’s Earth eclipse and the lunar transit (March 11, 2013)

    ByChillymanjaro

    On March 2, 2013, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) entered its semiannual eclipse season, a period of three weeks when Earth blocks its view of the Sun for a period of time each day. On March 11, 2013 SDO experienced two different eclipses – The Earth and the