NASA launched SDO to study Sun

NASA has launched a probe to study the sun and its dynamic behaviour "in greater detail than ever before" on Thursday in washington. A rocket 'Atlas V' carrying the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was Thursday launched from Florida's Atlantic Coast. The SDO is the first-of-its-kind spacecraft designed to study the sun, the agency said. It is expected to unlock the processes inside the sun, on its surface, and in its corona that result in solar variability which when experienced on Earth, is called space weather.
The five-year mission will disclose the sun's inner workings by constantly taking high resolution images, collecting readings from its inside and measuring its magnetic field activity. It "will determine how the sun's magnetic field is generated, structured and converted into violent solar events like turbulent solar wind, solar flares and coronal mass ejections," according to the agency.