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November 07, 2007
Fun in the Sun
This picture was taken by TRACE a NASA space telescope. TRACE is an acronym* for Transitional Region and Coronal Explorer, not, sadly, a familiar form of the name Tracey, which would be lovely really – “Where’s Trace?” “What’s Trace doing today?”
What Trace does is look at the sun and take pictures. If you ask, NASA will tell you things like “high-resolution imaging of fine-scale magnetic fields and plasma structures on an 8.5 arc minute field” but that basically means it looks at the sun and takes pictures. Good pictures, even though I suspect someone's been at them with the crayons.
*as opposed to, say, ISS which is not an acronym, it’s just a set of initials that stand for International Space Station.
Posted by john at November 7, 2007 08:43 AM