WUWT readers may want to watch this webcast. From a media advisory – NASA to Hold Briefing on Advanced Mission to Study Our Sun
WASHINGTON — NASA is scheduled to host a briefing at 1 p.m. EST, on Thursday, Jan. 21, to discuss the upcoming launch and science of an unprecedented mission to study the sun and its dynamic behavior. The briefing on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, mission will take place in the NASA Headquarters auditorium, located at 300 E St. S.W. in Washington and at the press site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The briefing participants are:
– Richard Fisher, Heliophysics division director, NASA Headquarters in Washington
– Madhulika Guhathakurta, SDO program scientist, NASA Headquarters
– Dean Pesnell, SDO project scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
– Elizabeth Citrin, SDO project manager, Goddard
The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency’s Web site. To watch the briefing on the Web, visit:
Reporters unable to attend the briefing may ask questions by telephone. To reserve a telephone line, journalists should e-mail their name, media affiliation and telephone number to J.D. Harrington at:
NOTE: Due to launch processing schedules, this briefing may move to 2 p.m. EST, Friday, Jan. 22. Media representatives should contact Harrington at 202-358-5241 Thursday morning for an update.
For more information about the SDO mission, visit:
h/t to Lief Svalgaard
You’d better tell the Captain we’ve got to launch this satelite as soon as we can. This satelite has to has to image the Sun ASAP.
The Sun? What is it?
It’s a big hot raging ball of gas in space 93million miles away, apparently has no effect on planetary climate in this solar system, but that’s not important right now. The EPA tells us CO2 is killing the planet and we need to tax freedom to hell to fix it.
Oh that’s right! I had lasagne for dinner.
I am very much looking forward to the SDO launch, lets all hope its goes off without a hitch.
Sites like the Layman’s Count will move to another level with the new technology.
1. Quote: Larry (23:00:40) :
“Oliver K. Manuel:
I’ve read your paper, all I can say is Wow! And to think, some scientists used to think the sun was made of coal.”
Larry,
If the spotlight of public attention continues to melt the Climategate iceberg, decades of data distortion and manipulation will be revealed in NASA and in NAS (the National Academy of Sciences).
The H-bomb convinced many scientists, including the late Sir Fred Hoyle and Sir Eddington, that the interior of the Sun is not iron (Fe) as they thought earlier*, but mostly Hydrogen like the solar surface.
*See: “Why the model of a Hydrogen-filled Sun is obsolete,”
http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0410569v1
I recommend that you also study the helioseismology studies of Dr. Carl Rouse, an honest and hardworking PhD astrophysics from Caltech.
Here is Dr. Rouse: http://tinyurl.com/y9o99y9
Dr. Rouse and my research group independently concluded that the interior of the Sun is iron rich, but NAS successfully diverted the attention of other scientists away from this empirical fact.
2. Quote: mikelorrey (23:41:37) :
“Professor Manuel,
Perhaps you could explain how, if the sun has such a high concentration of Iron and neutrons, that:
a) it doesn’t collapse into a black hole, and
b) its mass isn’t many times higher, too high for the planets to throw it around the barycentre so easily. A more massive sun should thus be much less tidally disturbed.”
Mike,
Please go back and read the paper and study the figures in “Earth’s heat source – the Sun”, Energy and Environment 20 (2009) 131-144
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.0704
If you still have questions, post them on:
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/what-is-the-solar-planetary-theory/
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel