AR9906 Solar Flare w/ Instrument Labels

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

A Multi-Mission View of the AR9906 Solar Flare with Instrument Labels

Here's a view of the Sun, from the point of view of a fleet of Sun-observing spacecraft - SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI. The time scales of the data samples in this visualization range from 6 hours to as short as 12 seconds and the display rate varies throughout the movie. The region and event of interest is the solar flare over solar active region AR9906 on April 21, 2002. In this visualization, the instrument names appear in a color roughly matching the color used for the data, and black corresponds to no (current) instrument coverage.

The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO/LASCO C3 field of view just before bursting

Metadata

  • Sensor

    SOHO/MDI, SOHO/EIT, SOHO/LASCO

  • Animation ID

    2509

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0017

  • Start Timecode

    01:11:10:00

  • End Timecode

    01:12:24:29

  • Animator

    Tom Bridgman

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2002/08/29

  • Scientist

    None

  • Keywords

    Sun, Solar Flare, Solar Active Region, Active Region 9906, Coronal Mass Ejection, CME, X-ray

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science

  • Data Date

    SOHO/LASCO-C2:2002/04/18T00:06:05-2002/04/23T23:51:10, SOHO/LASCO-C3:2002/04/18T00:18:05-2002/04/23T23:42:05, SOHO/EIT:2002/04/20T00:00:10-2002/04/21T23:52:09, SOHO/MDI:2002/04/10T23:59:31-2002/04/21T17:35:31, TRACE:2002/04/21T00:10:59-2002/04/21T07:58:34, RHESSI:2002/04/21T00:42:52-2002/04/21T01:32:18

  • Animation Type

    Regular

  • Other Credits

    A special thanks to all those who contributed data and advice without which this product would not have been possible (in no particular order): Alexander Kosovichev (Stanford University), Todd Hoeksema (Stanford University), Steele Hill (L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation/GSFC), Brian R. Dennis (NASA/GSFC), Peter T. Gallagher (L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation/GSFC), Joseph B. Gurman (NASA/GSFC), Nathan Rich (Interferometrics Inc./NRL), Bernhard Fleck (NASA/GSFC), Craig DeForest (SwRI), Philip Scherrer (Stanford University)