NASA announce first-ever 3-D STEREO images of Sun
At 11 a.m. EDT, April 23, 2007, NASA presents the STEREO 3-D Press Conference, at the Goddard Space Flight Center, to show off new (first time ever) three-dimensional images of the Sun that were made by the twin STEREO spacecraft. Go to NASA?s website WATCH NASA TV NOW for access to the live conference.
Two NASA solar observatory probes called STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) was launched on October 25, 2006, at 8:52 eastern daylight time (EDT), aboard a single Boeing Delta II rocket at Launch Complex 17 of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The near-twin pair of probes from the spacecraft was launched into highly elliptical geocentric (Earth-centered) orbits with an apogee (furthest distance away from the Earth) about equal to that of the Moon (about 384,400 kilometers, or 238,900 miles).
