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Old 02-08-2020, 04:14 PM   #8408 (permalink)
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East and West of Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEREO
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The principal benefit of the mission is stereoscopic images of the Sun. In other words, because the satellites are at different points along the Earth's orbit, but distant from the Earth, they can photograph parts of the Sun that are not visible from the Earth. This permits NASA scientists to directly monitor the far side of the Sun, instead of inferring the activity on the far side from data that can be gleaned from Earth's view of the Sun. The STEREO satellites principally monitor the far side for coronal mass ejections — massive bursts of solar wind, solar plasma, and magnetic fields that are sometimes ejected into space.[9]
My thinking was in error. I thought it was the GOES satellites, but they're in geo-stationary orbit.

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*Glowing testimonials,and boosterism for all the good modern technology and the industrial revolution has provided is countered by a planet in decline,on timescales never seen in the paleo record of the planet.
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*The news from Antarctica was covered by ABC,BBC,and Deutsch-Velle,the data provided by the research scientists at the research stations there: Argentina National Meteorological Service data.
We shall see if it survives peer review.
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