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Vote on your Sunspot Suspect

Tutorial

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wine bar		 WELCOME to Views From Satellites. You will be able to get images of the Sun from the NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) satellite. You can use these images to compare with your own observations at school (Views From Students) or with images from one of four professional telescopes (Views From Observatories).

Directions To Images: Multimedia Galleries and SOHO(read all instructions before you go to the SOHO site)

Multimedia Galleries

Visit page 3 of our Sun-Earth Media Viewer.
Here's how to get there:

  1. Click here to get to the Sun-Earth Media Viewer.
  2. Click on the third tab at the top of the Media Viewer that pops up and check out the cool images!

image of multimedia galleryTo access the Sun-Earth Media Viewer you will need the latest Flash Plug-in.
Get the Flash Player

SOHO

  1. Go to SOHO web site
  2. Click on the image of the Sun at the top left of the page (The Sun Now)
  3. This will take you to the page pictured below where you can explore and compare a variety of current solar images.

    4. images of sun from soho site

  4. What to do with the images
    Grades K-5
    Grades 5-12

    Vote for your Sunspot Suspect
    The Sunspot Suspect button to the left will allow you to cast your vote for the sunspot most likely to be the location for an energetic flare that might affect Earth. Your vote will be combined with votes from schools across the nation. The Sunspot Suspect with the most votes will be announced daily at Space Weather Alert System.