![Half of earth at the bottom, three satellites are above the earth, one in the middle, 2 to the sides. A smaller circle, the , is at the top](img/index1.jpg)
![A rocket against a dark background blasting off, creates a bright white-ish yellow flames at the bottom](img/index3.jpg)
![The blue B is the B Stereo spacecraft and the red A is the A Stereo spacecraft while the WIND spacecraft is between the and the earth, much closer to earth. at the middle with orbits around it. Earth is shown as the third orbit with two smaller objects around earth.](http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/where/where_is_stereo.gif)
Welcome to a public education website for some of the NASA instruments studying solar wind (stream of particles coming from the Sun).
Latest News:
April 09, 2012
Scientist observes a pattern of cells with bright centers and dark boundaries occurring in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. These cells looked somewhat like a cell pattern that occurs on the sun's surface -- similar to the bubbles that rise to the top of boiling water -- but it was a surprise to find this pattern higher up in the corona, which is normally dominated by bright loops and dark coronal holes.
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