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Solar Data Analysis Center

data center and heliophysics data archive in Greenbelt, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 19, 2024
Entity authorityQ124526182 ↗
Source-derived summary

NASA's Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC) is a data center and repository at NASA/GSFC, responsible for managing and archiving data from scientific heliophysics missions. The center is a major distribution hub for solar images from the SDO and other solar space missions such as SOHO, Hinode and STEREO, and serves as an access point for the Virtual Solar Observatory and many other heliophysics and solar physics resources.

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The public source identifies “Solar Data Analysis Center” as data center and heliophysics data archive in Greenbelt, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Solar, Data and Analysis.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 67-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Solar, Data and Analysis providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 19, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q124526182. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Solar Data Analysis Center” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.