NASA, SDO: Three Years of Sun in Three Minutes

Music: A Lady s Errand of Love composed and performed by Martin Lass In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day. SDO s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 di