HMI LAUNCHED! 11 February, 2010
Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. (Feb. 11, 2010) - A United Launch Alliance Atlas V with NASA?s Solar Dynamics Observatory launches from its Space Launch Complex-41 launch pad at 10:23 a.m. EST here today. SDO is the first satellite of NASA?s Living with a Star (LWS) program. Its purpose is to examine the sun, the source of all space weather. Photo by Pat Corkery, United Launch Alliance.
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