Hinode Mission
Monday, April 23rd, 2007Source: http://hinode.msfc.nasa.gov/
Hinode is a joint mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC).
If you are a whizkid fond of telescope, this should be interesting to you. Hinode has got an amazing telescope called ‘Solar Optical Telescope (SOT)’.
It has a resolution of 0.2 arcseconds or 0.00006 degrees. Putting those numbers into perspective, the telescope can see features on the sun as small as 90 miles wide from its orbit 93 million miles away. Its unique ability is, it can see the sun’s magnetic field. Wow!
Hinode means ’sunrise’ in Japan!