Welcome to the Solar Data Analysis Center
at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
in Greenbelt, Maryland USA.
Current Solar Images
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for the latest ground- and space-based solar images in the SDAC archives.
Click for
GIF representations of these images via anonymous ftp.
SolarMonitor hosted at the SDAC
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now features RSS feeds with active region closeups.
Peter Gallagher's SolarMonitor, the Website formerly known
as the Active Region Monitor, is hosted at the SDAC, as well as other sites. SolarMonitor offers up-to-date
information on solar activity, including images, flare locations, flare
predictions, and links to the LMSAL
"last
events" page, which gives a graphic view of solar and heliospheric
activity through soft X-ray, energetic proton, and solar wind data.
Sam Freeland of LMSAL has generated an archive of "latest events"
pages from 2002 to the present, at
LMSAL.
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Navigate to Solar Data Online
| Try the SDAC DataFinder for quick access
to space solar physics data held at the SDAC.
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Note that all links to resources with non-NASA IP addresses open in new
windows.
SOHO news
2004 December 10
| SOHO status
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SOHO is in normal mode, and all instruments are observing. The coarse
sun pointing attitude anomaly detector has been reenabled.
Why 1 Tbyte/day doesn't scare us
Some people appear to think that the expected
Solar Dynamics Observatory downlink
rate of 1 Terabyte (Tbyte) = 1000 Gbyte a day is lot of data. Since SDO
won't be launched until late 2007 at the earliest, we
don't. See why.
TRACE
Twin comets race to fiery death!
....or words to that effect: see two Kreutz sungrazers barrel toward the LASCO
occulting disks, and then watch the CME's and a spectacular eruptive
prominence. Check out the:
SOHO
EIT eruptive prominence of the week
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of the Sun in He II 304 Å showing a large, eruptive prominence.
Image taken 2006 October 11 at 13:21 UT UT.
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Wondering how big these events are relative to the earth?
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enlarged view of how the earth
compares in size to a He II 304 Å
eruptive prominence.
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1999 March 6 08:08 - 12:48 UT
QuickTime movie | MPEG Movie | GIF movie
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Click on any of the movie icons to watch the time-lapse movie.
Bonus movie: click on this
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for an MPEG movie of a twisting eruption of the south polar crown
filament on 1999 March 5.
Credit: The SOHO-EIT Consortium: SOHO is an ESA-NASA program of
international cooperation.
Find links here to descriptions of current and upcoming NASA research programs
in solar physics and related fields and announcements of selections.
Recent news
Last updated: 2007 October 31
NASA Heliophysics has selected 33 proposals
for funding under the Solar and Heliospheric Supporting Research and Technology (SR&T) line of ROSES-2006,
compared with 18 last year.
Links to online solar data sets, at the SDAC and at other sites
STEREO
See the
STEREO "What's new?" page
for current mission status.
Hinode
The NASA
Eclipse Website now serves all NASA's eclipse-related resources, including the NASA Eclipse Bulletins.
Eclipse Bulletin for the
total solar eclipse of 2008 August 1
Links to solar physics Web resources of general interest.
Access the
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) WWW pages.
Access the
SOHO anonymous ftp directories.
The
MEDOC, the SOHO
Multi-Experiment Data and Operations Center at the Université de
Paris-Sud in Orsay, France has its own Web pages.
The EIT home page is now available.
Other solar Web resources, including professional societies (AAS, SPD, AGU)
and research sites
Other features
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Web curator:
Joseph B. Gurman
Responsible NASA official:
Joseph B. Gurman,
Facility Scientist, Solar Data Analysis Center
+1 301 286-4767
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Physics Branch / Code 671.1
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Last revised 2008 August 21 - J.B. Gurman