Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)

[Grey Havoc]

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SOHO - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

The Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) project is a cooperative effort between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. SOHO was designed to study the internal structure of the Sun, its extensive outer atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind, the stream of highly ionized gas that blows...

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[JacopCooper]

I wonder how this spacecraft manages to work for more than 25 years. SOHO gave scientists large amounts of different data about the Sun and solar activity. Moreover, SOHO discovered more than 4,000 comets. No one expected that this observatory would help NASA have so much useful information. Sun has a great influence on our planet, so the more we know about it, the better for us.