Soho Space Mission

The Solar and Heliospheric observatory was launched on December 2 1995. This was a group study between NASA and ESA. The reason why it was launched was to study the core, the outer corona and solar winds. American and European scientist  brought 12 instruments on SOHO. This photo is Soho EIT 171's latest image. It was taken on August.8.2014. In this picture you are able to see the Corona.