Monday, May 7, 2012

NO Current LASCO C2 & C3 - Website has NOT been updating since Thurs May 3, 2012??


THE LASCO WEBSITE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATING SINCE THURSDAY MAY 3, 2012
Emergency Sun Reacquisition" mode on Friday May 4, 2012, caused by a false trigger of the Coarse Sun Pointing Attitude Anomaly Dector. We are working on the recovery of the spacecraft to normal mode. Nominal science operations should be re-established in the next couple of days.

http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/

LASCO Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) is one of a number of instruments aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory satellite (SOHO). LASCO consists of three solar coronagraphs with nested fields of view.