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- proper noun A
solar observation mission, consisting of two identicalspacecraft , that will providestereoscopic imaging of theSun .
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"Nature has a mind of its own, and STEREO is going to help us figure out how to avoid those surprises the sun tends to throw at us," said Michael Kaiser, a STEREO project scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
NASA Launches Spacecraft to Monitor the Sun | Impact Lab 2006
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Fountains of Rome (not recommended), the sleeve of which depicted the great Rococo colossus, along with the word STEREO writ larger than the names of any of the artists involved in its performance.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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An artist’s concept of the twin STEREO spacecraft studying the sun.
NASA Launches Spacecraft to Monitor the Sun | Impact Lab 2006
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An artist’s conception shows the twin STEREO observatories separating shortly after launch.
NASA Launches Spacecraft to Monitor the Sun | Impact Lab 2006
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How many questions do Cassini, New Horizons, and STEREO get?
Charles Bolden Nominated for NASA Administrator by President Obama - NASA Watch 2009
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Data courtesy of courtesy of the Heliospheric Imager on the NASA STEREO mission.
Boing Boing 2009
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The project uses real data from NASA's STEREO spacecraft, a pair of satellites in orbit around the Sun which give scientists a constant eye on the ever-changing solar surface.
New Citizen Science Opportunity: Solar Storm Watch | Universe Today 2010
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We know it is still there, because the STEREO spacecraft can show us what is going on the sun's far side.
Eclipse Sunspots Signal Increased Activity | Universe Today 2010
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Additionally on Jan. 19th at 1340 UT, STEREO-B recorded the strongest solar flare in almost two years.
Eclipse Sunspots Signal Increased Activity | Universe Today 2010
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STEREO B captures the largest solar flare in two years.
Eclipse Sunspots Signal Increased Activity | Universe Today 2010
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