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is it possible to put a video camera on Nasa's twin "STEREO" spacecraft, to record videos of the sun close-up?

since they already have cameras taking pictures so close, wouldnt it be possible to do the same with video cameras? just curious, im not really informed about the certain space weather conditions and impossibilities of their being a video camera in space, but im just curious..

Public Comments

1. If you put conventional video cameras on such a spacecraft, all that you would render on the recording media would be a big white blur. Conventional video cameras simply aren't tuned to handle that kind of incident visible radiation intensity. Instead, sun observing spacecraft need their cameras specially designed to handle the expected radiation levels if you want a meaningful result.
2. There are cameras already on the craft.
3. They effectively are video cameras. Things happen so slowly on the surface that if we just take a picture once every hour and run them together at 24 frames per second, it looks like video and we can watch things unfold.