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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 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.
Zoom in on the location of the RHESSI flare.
Metadata
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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