First Flare, 105x Speed

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

First Flare movie for the RHESSI instrument (speed 105x normal)

An animation of an M-class flare viewed by the RHESSI instrument on February 20, 2002. On tape, this version plays at the maximum speed of one frame corresponding to 3.5 seconds of data collection time. The flare was located at -17.8 degrees South, 9.8 degrees West (heliographic coordinates) in NOAA active region number 9830.

X-rays from the second portion of this flare event.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    RHESSI/X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer

  • Animation ID

    2402

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0014

  • Start Timecode

    01:00:35:00

  • End Timecode

    01:01:23:21

  • Animator

    Tom Bridgman

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2002/03/13

  • Scientist

    Brian Dennis (NASA/GSFC), Robert Lin (University of California at Berkeley), Peter T. Gallagher (L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    Big Bear Solar Observatory/H-alpha, SOHO/EIT 195

  • Keywords

    Sun, Solar Flare, X-ray, Hydrogen-Alpha, Solar Active Region, Active Region 9830

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science

  • Data Date

    (2002-02-20T20:48:11.142Z)- (2002-02-20T21:23:48.068Z)

  • Story URL

    http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020320hessixray.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular