| Type of detector | Image resolution | ||||||
| Whole-disk | Disk resolution | ||||||
| Doppler | 
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| Intensity | hardly possible | TON | |||||
| Type of detector | Image resolution | |
| Whole-disk | Disk resolution | |
| Doppler |  
GOLF (Global Oscillations at Low Frequencies) Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, France.  | 
SOI/MDI  (Michelson Doppler Imager/Solar Oscillations Investigation) Stanford University, USA  | 
| Intensity | 
VIRGO  (Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations); ESTEC  | 
SOI/MDI |