SOHO Status Report - February 2006
Operations and Archiving
All instruments are nominal and SOHO science operations are progressing smoothly. Links to the SOHO archives (including mirrors) are accessible at http://soho.esac.esa.int/data/.
Science Highlights
On 2 December we celebrated the 10th launch anniversary of SOHO. The ESA main portal featured a SOHO 10-year special, and the SOHO home page listed some numbers from SOHO's first decade:
- 2400 reviewed papers using SOHO data have been published
- 2300 scientists appear in the author lists of those papers
- 140 Ph.D. theses have been written on or about SOHO data
- 1000 comets have been found
- 289 scientific meetings on subjects related to SOHO appear on our web pages
- 944 news stories appear on our web pages (only recorded between 1997 and 2005)
- 2 000 000 command blocks have been sent to the spacecraft by the ground system
- 10 000 000 exposures (almost!) have been made by the CDS instrument
- 100 000 000 exposures have been taken by MDI
- 16 000 000 distinct hosts have been served by the web server
- 266 000 000 web page requests have been served
- 16 Terabytes of data are contained in the SOHO archive
- 85 Terabytes of web pages/data have been downloaded from the SOHO archive
Last Update: 1 September 2019