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LAS NOTICIAS Y EVENTOS DEL PROGRAMA SOLAR TERRESTRIAL PROBES
Magnetic Trilobite – NASA Science News – September 18, 2007
Last week in Boulder, Colorado, scientists converged on the "Living With A Star" workshop to share the latest research in solar physics. At one point, nearly 200 participants sat slack-jawed as they watched a new movie recorded by Japan's Hinode spacecraft showing a sunspot emerging from the depths of the sun. The newborn
spot resembled nothing less than a swimming planet-sized trilobite. See for yourself--and find out what it means--in today's Science@NASA story.
Full Story at: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/18sep_trilobite.htm?list750767
Hinode Sees Transit of Mercury! – November 8, 2006
 Instruments on Hinode have successfully obtained images of the transit of the planet Mercury, which occurred on November 8 from 19:12 - 00:09 UT. To convert your local time to Universal Time (UT) visit the Sun-Earth Connection pages. For movies and more images, go to the pages of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Hinode Project office.
STEREO – November 7, 2006
Two weeks after launch, the twin STEREO spacecraft are operating nominally. They're in the first of four phasing orbits (flying from a point close to Earth to one that extends just beyond the moon) prior to the first lunar swingby scheduled for Dec. 15, 2006, when the "ahead" spacecraft will use the moon's gravity to propel it into its operating orbit.
Since launch, the spacecraft separated from each other, and their solar arrays and high-gain antennas successfully deployed. The STEREO/WAVES (S/WAVES) instrument's antennas, one on each observatory, have also successfully deployed. The In situ Measurements of PArticles and CME Transients (IMPACT) instrument suite's 4-meter boom, one aboard each observatory, also successfully deployed.
Hinode (Solar-B) First Light! – October 31, 2006
 Hinode has successfully obtained images with all three instruments: SOT, EIS, and XRT. For the full story and high resolution images, go to the pages of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Hinode Project office of Japan.
Go STEREO! Go Delta! – October 25, 2006
 NASA's STEREO mission got off to a spectacular start as the rocket carrying the twin satellites blazed through the starry sky after lifting off at 8:52 p.m. October 25th, EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Racing into space on the 12 flaming engines of a Boeing Delta II rocket, the spacecraft are on their way to investigating the origin of special solar storms erupting from the sun. Known as "coronal mass ejections," these storms travel at nearly 1 million mph and can knock out power on the ground. The rocket is delivering the STEREO spacecraft to opposite sides of Earth. There STEREO will map the structure of the storms in 3-D as they leave the sun and flow around the planet.
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