Solar Variability during Record Solar Flares Video

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

SORCE Monitors Solar Variability during Record Solar Flares - Video version

The SORCE mission monitors solar variability to determine its impact on the Earth's climate. The X-ray photometer aboard SORCE observes the record-breaking solar flares in the Fall of 2003. The line graph shows the photometer's measured solar radiation flux in the 1-7 nanometer wavelength band (x-ray) measured in milliwatts per square meter. The ultraviolet (195 Angstrom) imagery from SOHO/EIT (green) illustrates where the flares (the bright white spots) are located on the solar disk. This version has the contents slightly smaller for use in video.

The X17 solar flare on October 28, 2003

Metadata

  • Sensor

    SORCE/XPS

  • Animation ID

    2918

  • Video ID

    None

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Tom Bridgman, Marte Newcombe

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2004/02/18

  • Scientist

    Gary Rottman (University of Colorado), Tom Woods (University of Colorado)

  • Datasets

    SOHO/EIT

  • Keywords

    Solar Flare, Solar Radiation, X-ray, Ultraviolet, Solar Active Region

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science

  • Data Date

    2003/10/25-2003/11/07

  • Pao ID

    G04-009

  • Animation Type

    Regular