Hello, SDO

  • Released Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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Meet Little SDO! This animated version of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is here to introduce you to all the great new ways we'll be looking at the sun and predicting how it will affect our lives on Earth.

Promo

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will be NASA's new eye on the sun. This short promo introduces SDO's comically animated alter-ego, 'Little SDO'.

Looking Inside the Sun

Little SDO explains both how he can see inside the sun and how he can tell what you ate for lunch today.

Tons of Data

Little SDO demonstrates just how much data he sends every day.

Big Sun

Little SDO demonstrates the fact that he takes really, really large pictures of the sun.

Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

This page was originally published on Wednesday, July 2, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.

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