NASA On Air: NASA's SDO Satellite Captures HD Time Lapse Of The Sun (2/12/2016)

  • Released Friday, February 12, 2016
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LEAD: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory catches the sun in HD video.

1: Images shown here are in the extreme ultraviolet range.

2: The temperature of the solar material is near 1 million degrees F.

3: It's easy to see the sun's rotation, 1 full rotation every 25 days.

TAG: Scientists study these images to better understand the solar flares and solar explosions called coronal mass ejections that can sometimes disrupt our technology such as GPS systems.

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