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It seems that NASA want to have a closer look into the bathroom-windows of our Alien visitors:
On 9th Feb the SDO is scheduled to lift off :

""The sun," explains Lika Guhathakurta of NASA headquarters in
Washington DC, "is a variable star."

Enter the Solar Dynamics Observatory—"SDO" for short—slated to launch
on Feb. 9, 2010, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SDO is designed to probe solar variability unlike any other mission in NASA
history. It will observe the sun faster, deeper, and in greater detail than
previous observatories, breaking barriers of time-scale and clarity that
have long blocked progress in solar physics.

Guhathakurta believes that "SDO is going to revolutionize our view of the
sun."
The revolution begins with high-speed photography. SDO will record
IMAX-quality images of the sun every 10 seconds using a bank of multiwavelength
telescopes called the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA).
For comparison, previous observatories have taken pictures at best every
few minutes with resolutions akin to what you see on the web, not at a
movie theatre. Researchers believe that SDO's rapid-fire cadence could
have the same transformative effect on solar physics that the invention of
high-speed photography had on many sciences in the 19th century. "

Source: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/05feb_sdo.htm

Well, just more work for them to airbrush all these new pics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmIRU72b9_k


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