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Dec 1, 2010

NASA - Solar Observation Mission Celebrates 15 Years

SOHO launching on the Atlas II-AS (AC-121) at Cape Canaveral Air Station on December 2, 1995. This coronal mass ejection -- observed by SOHO's EIT 195 instrument on April 7, 1997 -- was the first visual image of such an ejection headed for Earth. It appeared as the lead story on the national news. Credit: SOHO/ESA/NASA On December 2, 1995, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory or SOHO was launched into space from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas IIAS rocket. The joint ESA/NASA project began its work observing the sun at a time when the term "solar weather" was almost never used.

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