Psmith Posted January 13, 2013 Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 As you may know - I keep tabs on what is going on with solar imagery and weather. Looking at today's SOHO image, I saw this strange thing. http://solarmonitor.org/full_disk.php?date=20130113&type=bbso_halph&indexnum=1 Maybe I'm confused, but I thought our solar monitoring satellites orbited well above our atmospheric aircraft. Greg Smith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Tony Nemo Posted January 13, 2013 Contributor Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 It appears that the monitoring is done from surface telescopes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psmith Posted January 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 These "space" images are from the SOHO satellite observatories located in orbit around the sun. Look up SOHO on Wikipedia. Not located on this earth. Whoops - some of these NOAA images are, indeed, earth based. Hard to tell which images are being posted on the "Solar Monitor" site. Greg Smith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Roger_K Posted January 13, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 Must be one of Xenu's DC-08s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member bisenberger Posted January 14, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 cool image anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Ruth Spacecookie Andrews Posted January 15, 2013 Member Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Airforce one, landing on the sun, to see the sun aliens. "How would that even be possible, you get too close and you'd burn up?' "You'd do it at night of course, duh!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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