Notice of upcoming change: The kiosk product currently offered on the SDO website will be discontinued on April 20, 2017. We are launching a new replacement product called SDO Dashboard. This kiosk will still be available afterwards but we are directing people to use our new product.

The dashboard product is located here: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dashboard and is available for testing and use. The new product is similar in that is displays a looping movie of the most recent browse images. However, we are utilizing html5 video technology instead of the javascript slideshow solution.


Some users have reported a noticeable flicker effect with the javascript slideshow. We were unable to reproduce this flaw in a test setting and concluded that this could be the result of any number of reasons including browser idiosyncrasies. The javascript solution also had a slight memory leak. This necessitated a periodic browser refresh. Our new solution has solved these issues and we are excited for the transition.

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