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    Dancing the Lunar Transit

    Illustration of the relative motion of the Moon and SDO during the lunar transit

    By Sarah Frazier NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center On March 6, 2019, our Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, witnessed a lunar transit — where both the Sun and Moon displayed a little odd behavior. First, there was the transit itself. A lunar transit occurs when the Moon passes between SDO and the Sun, blocking the …

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    The Story of Argo Sun

    By Tom Bridgman, Ph.D. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio In my nearly 20 years making visualizations at NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, "Argo Sun"— a simultaneous view of the Sun in various wavelengths of light — is probably one of my favorites. It is not only scientifically useful, but it's one of the …

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