A Celebration of 10 Years of SOHO

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On the 2nd December 1995 the worlds flagship solar probe SOHO was launched on a journey of some 1.5million Km's sunwards of Earth to the Lagrangian point, from where it has been sending back a near constant stream of data on our nearest star the Sun and its environment. In 10 years it has revolutionised our ideas about the solar interior and solar atmosphere and the acceleration of the solar wind. Scientists gathered on the anniversary of the launch, at CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, to celebrate the achievements of SOHO. Below we bring you a few selected movies. The CCLRC News Release    Soho Launch movie (QuickTime) Selected results and movies from SOHO - courtesy of the SOHO and Instrument teams. SOHO Spacecraft animation QuickTime Our mysterious Sun QuickTime The complex & violent solar atmosphere QuickTime The quiet and active Sun QuickTime Close up on convection cells QuickTime Peeling back the solar atmosphere QuickTime Temperature mapping the Sun QuickTime Solar Tornadoes. The Vibrating Sun QuickTime Coronal Mass Ejection QuickTime Driving the Earths Aurora animation QuickTime The Comet Neat QuickTime Two out of a thousand Comets QuickTime The big one QuickTime Four Planets & the Plieades QuickTime Magnetic Field Structure animation QuickTime Surface Magnetic polarities QuickTime Problems viewing the movies: Mozilla,Firefox & Windows Media Player should work fine together IE & Windows Media Player may have issues: Either click 'close' on the WMP 'download failed box' then click play on WMP (Once cached locally the movie should play) or right click on an image and select 'Save Target as' then save file to disc. Play the saved file by double clicking on it. or simply chose the QuickTime option Some amazing facts about 10 years of CDS 10,000,000 exposures have been taken 34,000 science studies have been run 240,000 science fits files have been produced 3,500 individual science plans have been made 400,000 command blocks have been sent to CDS by the CDS ground system 400GB of data sent back from CDS 666 reviewed science papers published The mechanisms have performed: 24,000,000 mirror steps 7,000,000 slit steps 24,000,000 instrument pointing movements and all with just one major service, and that was before launch News: 24th November 2005 A CDS Intrument status page is now online. The CDS User Guide has been updated with latest GIS information. FINAL FITS PRODUCTS We still await the definative orbit information files. Processing of CDS final telemetry continues, though data sets are not being flagged as 'Final' until the orbit files becomes available. View the CD Processing page to see the current processing status From the CDS Operations Management Team in the Space Science & Technology Department at CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Site maintained by John Rainnie. Last revised on Monday (21/Nov/2005) at 15:07.