NASA, SDOs Ultra high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit

Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its fiveyear mission, it will examine the sun s atmosphere, magnetic field and also provide a better understanding of the role the sun plays in Earth s atmospheric chemistry and climate. SDO provides images with resolution 8 times better than highdefinition television and returns more than a terabyte of data each day. On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest