Skylab/ATM Analysis Homepage

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Skylab was the United States' first manned space observatory. Its instruments were used to study the sun, especially the outer solar atmosphere. It did so in more detail than ever possible before. Read these pages to find out more about this fascinating satellite and the results of its studies.

About Skylab and the Apollo Telescope Mount

Results from the Skylab Mission

Data Archive

Anonymous ftp instructions to the data archive.

Here are some movies of CME's taken by Skylab on its mission in 1973 and 1974. A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a major reconfiguration of the sun's magnetic field that ejects large amounts of solar material into interplanetary space and sometimes towards the earth.

Explanation of the Skylab data and fits header.

Acknowledgements

The High Altitude Observatory is a division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Check out the NASA Skylab homepage for more Skylab info. OR... Check out the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) homepage...

Copyright 2002, NCAR.