Photo in the News: First 3-D Images of Sun Unveiled
Apr 23, 2010, 20:03 (2 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Victoria Jaggard)
"Break out those 3-D glasses and get ready to see the sun in a
whole new light.
"NASA today released the first three-dimensional images of the
sun ever compiled, a feat made possible by the agency's twin Solar
Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft.
"Like a person's two eyes providing depth perception, the two
spacecraft orbit the sun at a set distance from each other to offer
a stereo view."
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