Stereo View of the Sun · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 14, 2005 @08:47AM from the fly-on-the-wall dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "NASA's STEREO mission will be launched in 2006 with the goal of imaging the sun and the solar winds in 3-D. According to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), two identical spacecrafts will be placed in different orbits to provide us with 'stereo' views of the Sun. After the launch in Spring 2006, the two observatories will be separated after a couple of months, one orbiting ahead of the Earth, and the other staying behind. So we should be able to see the Sun in 3-D in less than a year."

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Sun? by didit · 2005-11-14 08:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Is Project Looking Glass required?
see the sun in 3d by Anonymous Coward · 2005-11-14 09:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

i can do that now, but not for a very long time.
Re:Where in Orbit? by xv4n · 2005-11-14 09:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"We don't have time for twenty questions"