NASA has launched the Atlas V rocket that will capture the sun in greater detail than ever before. The agency says it will provide a better understanding of the sun and how it plays a role in major weather events such as solar flares, which can wreak havok on earth. The rocket will return images with 10 times better resolution than HD television. This rocket may help predict space weather, right now there is no way to do such a thing. The rocket was originally supposed to launch in August of 2008 but more testing was needed to launch it.
It think that launching a rocket towards the sun is a great idea. It will help astronauts better predict space weather being that right now there is no real way to predict what space weather is going to happen. For me it would be really cool to see these images of the sun with such great resolution. I have never seen up close images that provide a lot of detail. It would be really nice to see solar flares in action. Overall I think NASA had a good idea here.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/space/02/11/solar.dynamics.observatory/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
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