First Flare, 52x Speed

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

First Flare movie for the RHESSI instrument (speed 52x normal)

An animation of an M-class flare viewed by the RHESSI instrument on February 20, 2002. On tape, this version plays at a speed of two video frames 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.

First flare location fades as second flash is on the rise.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    RHESSI/X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer

  • Animation ID

    2403

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0014

  • Start Timecode

    01:01:40:00

  • End Timecode

    01:03:00:00

  • 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