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2013 April 26?A Year on the Sun?Image Credit:?NASA,?Solar Dynamics ObservatoryExplanation:?Our solar systems?miasma of incandescent plasma, the Sun may look a little scary here. The picture is a composite of 25 images?recorded in extreme ultraviolet light?by the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory between April 16, 2012 and April 15, 2013. The particular wavelength of light, 171 angstroms, shows emission from highly ionized iron atoms in the solar corona at a characteristic temperatures of about 600,000?kelvins?(about 1 million degrees F). Girdling?both sides?of the equator during approach to maximum in the?11-year solar cycle, the solar active regions are laced with bright loops and arcs along?magnetic field lines. Of course, a more familiar?visible light?view would show the bright active regions as groups of?dark sunspots. Three years of Solar Dynamics Observatory images are compressed into?this short video.2013 April 27?Sharp Stereo?Image Credit:?NASA,?JPL-Caltech,?MSLExplanation:?Get out your?red/blue glasses?and gaze across the floor of Gale crater on Mars. From your vantage point on the deck of the Curiosity Rover?Mount Sharp, the craters?5 kilometer high central mountain looms over the southern horizon.?Poised in the foreground?is the rovers robotic arm with tool turret extended toward the flat veined patch of martian surface dubbed John Klein.?A complete version?of the stereo view spans 360 degrees, digitally stitched together from the rovers left and right navigation camera frames taken in late January. The layered lower slopes of Mount Sharp, formally known as Aeolis Mons, are a future destination?for Curiosity.2013 April 28?A Raging Storm System on Saturn?Image Credit:?Cassini Imaging Team,?SSI,?JPL,?ESA,?NASAExplanation:?It was one of the largest and longest lived storms ever recorded in our Solar System. ? First seen in late 2010, the?above cloud formation?in the northern hemisphere of Saturn started larger than the Earth and?soon spread?completely arou