Comet Lovejoy Survives Passage Through The Corona
June 7, 2012
SESDA II science and operations personnel played vital roles in planning special observations of the dramatic plunge and survival of Comet Lovejoy through the hot multi-million degree solar corona during 15-16 December 2011. By swiftly disseminating last minute changes in ephemeris predictions, staff assured successful observations of the comet’s passage by an armada of spacecraft including the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), and Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
Breathtaking images and movies of the comet’s progress were subsequently created and posted on NASA’s science news portal where they received extensive press coverage:http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16dec_cometlovejoy/
