A remarkable event took place during December 25 and 26, 2013.
Over 6.5 hours of images were missing on SOHO’s lasco satellite, from 2013/12/25 - 22.36 to 2013/12/26 - 05.00
Since there was nothing to see on Lasco, BPEarthwatch took a closer look at the SDO images to see what happened on December 25 and 26 and learned that during the missing hours, a large unknown object heading towards the sun and caused an explosion.
Remarkable, three days before, on December 22 the SDO Satellite went down.
NASA’s statement: SDO/HMIAIA data distribution system is undergoing some emergency repairs and image updates from sdo.gfsc.nasa.gov have been suspended.
On December 23, the SDO data flow has been restored.
Over 6.5 hours of images were missing on SOHO’s lasco satellite, from 2013/12/25 - 22.36 to 2013/12/26 - 05.00
Since there was nothing to see on Lasco, BPEarthwatch took a closer look at the SDO images to see what happened on December 25 and 26 and learned that during the missing hours, a large unknown object heading towards the sun and caused an explosion.
Remarkable, three days before, on December 22 the SDO Satellite went down.
NASA’s statement: SDO/HMIAIA data distribution system is undergoing some emergency repairs and image updates from sdo.gfsc.nasa.gov have been suspended.
On December 23, the SDO data flow has been restored.