<p>The SDO is the first of its kind spacecraft designed to study the sun, the agency said.<br />It is expected to unlock the processes inside the sun, on its surface, and in its corona that result in solar variability which when experienced on earth, is called space weather.<br /><br />The five-year mission will disclose the sun’s inner workings by constantly taking high resolution images, collecting readings from its inside and measuring its magnetic field activity.<br /><br />It “will determine how the sun’s magnetic field is generated, structured and converted into violent solar events like turbulent solar wind, solar flares and coronal mass ejections,” according to the agency.<br /><br />This data is expected to help researchers predict solar storms and other activity on the sun that can affect spacecraft in orbit.</p>
<p>The SDO is the first of its kind spacecraft designed to study the sun, the agency said.<br />It is expected to unlock the processes inside the sun, on its surface, and in its corona that result in solar variability which when experienced on earth, is called space weather.<br /><br />The five-year mission will disclose the sun’s inner workings by constantly taking high resolution images, collecting readings from its inside and measuring its magnetic field activity.<br /><br />It “will determine how the sun’s magnetic field is generated, structured and converted into violent solar events like turbulent solar wind, solar flares and coronal mass ejections,” according to the agency.<br /><br />This data is expected to help researchers predict solar storms and other activity on the sun that can affect spacecraft in orbit.</p>