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Images & Animations
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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.
The event in Hydrogen-alpha from Big Bear Solar Observatory. Early stage of gas ejection.
Metadata
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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