Project for On-Board Autonomy-2 (PROBA-2)
The ESA Project for On-Board Autonomy-2 (PROBA-2) mission consists of one satellite in a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit and has two instrument onboard to study the Sun. One of these instruments is the SWAP instrument which is an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imager which images the Sun in the 174 Ångström wavelength.
Courtesy of PROBA-2 (SIDC/ESA)
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Sunday, 31 May 2020 - 14:53 UTC
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Saturday, 30 May 2020 - 13:05 UTC
Yesterday's M-flare producing active region rotates into view
Friday, 29 May 2020 - 12:01 UTC
First M-class solar flare of a Solar Cycle 25 region!
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| Last X-flare: | 2017/09/10 | X8.2 |
| Last M-flare: | 2020/05/29 | M1.1 |
| Last geomagnetic storm: | 2020/04/20 | Kp5 (G1) |
| Number of spotless days in 2020: | 124 | |
| Current stretch spotless days: | 32 | |