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It was totally fascinating reading about Soho and how it was almost lost in space when it’s gyroscopes failed and how they re-commissioned it by installing new software from earth.
To think that it’s still going since I think 1995 is amazing!
The image gallery alone is really nice, it has a lot of videos on the website.
The videos of comets grazing the sun is amazing !
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/home.html
Gee if I had known there was so much to see I would have started decades ago ! :Astronomer1:

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That's pretty cool, thanks for the link :)
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"It was totally fascinating reading about Soho and how it was almost lost in space..."
Fear not. Soho has been around a long time and probably will continue, although some might say that its history is nothing to brag about...
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho#History
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Thanks for the link. It's amazing what repairs we can make to far away spacecraft!!

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AntennaGuy wrote: Sun Dec 25, 2022 5:07 pm "It was totally fascinating reading about Soho and how it was almost lost in space..."
Fear not. Soho has been around a long time and probably will continue, although some might say that its history is nothing to brag about...
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho#History
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“ I’ll be here all week folks “ now that’s funny just as funny as the link to SoHo I never even thought about that SoHo thanks for the laugh my friend !
Gee if I had known there was so much to see I would have started decades ago ! :Astronomer1:

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Thanks for sharing, I've never heard of Soho, that was interesting.
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ranjimdom wrote: Fri Dec 30, 2022 3:22 pm Thanks for sharing, I've never heard of Soho, that was interesting.
My pleasure that was also my reaction I had never heard of it !
Happy New Year my friend?
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Happy New Year! May happiness and love be everywhere, and wish peace to our planet in 2023.
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