Current Images Of The Sun:
These images represent data from
Mauna Loa Solar Observatory instruments.
1) Magnetotail Science and Aurora Viewing
13 May 2013: HAO Scientist Michael Wiltberger attended the AGU Chapman Conference on Fundamental Properties and Processes of Magnetotails in Reykjavik, Iceland, March 10-15, 2013.
2) NASA Selects GOLD and ICON Missions
18 April 2013: NASA has selected two new satellite missions to be built as part of the Heliophysics Explorer Program. The projects will provide space observations to study Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere, and will launch in 2017.
3) Waves Might Heat Solar Atmosphere
3 July 2012: A team of astronomers, including Scott McIntosh, discovered Alfvénic waves permeate both the corona and the transition zone between the corona and the chromosphere. (Photo courtesy NASA.)
4) Secrets of the Sun
25 April 2012: Our own Sarah Gibson and Scott McIntosh are among the solar researchers featured in a episode of the PBS series NOVA. "Secrets of the Sun".5) Inauguration of the Boulder Fabry-Perot Interferometer Upper-atmosphere Wind Observation
16 March 2012: A Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) was installed at NCAR Marshall Field, just to the south-east of Boulder, to observe thermospheric and mesospheric winds.

