PICK OF THE WEEK: Breaking Away

[SOHO]

No less than three prominences erupted over a nine-hour period (Mar. 13-14, 2010) as the STEREO (Behind) spacecraft captured the action in an extreme UV wavelength of light...

More... (http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/pickoftheweek/old/26mar2010/)

[JoshERTW]

Wow, they plan to increase the frequency of data collection next month by 60x ! I assume that will result accordingly in an increase in the analysis of the same data, which is no small task (and probably no small cost). I wonder if they are expecting something big? Maybe this is just where the excess cash from the manned space program is being 'reassigned.' The question remains, "Why?"

[Swami]

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