Chasing Solar Storms on a Wing and a Game
When scientists at the Royal Observatory Greenwich began analyzing data from the STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) Spacecraft, they knew it wasn’t going to be an easy task. The craft, which uses two near-identical satellites to reveal solar storms in 3D, has already transmitted over 100,000 images of solar activity…almost 25 terabytes of data! It didn’t take…
