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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
A Multi-Mission View of the AR9906 Solar Flare without Instrument Labels
Here's a view of the Sun, from the point of view of a fleet of Sun-observing spacecraft - SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI. The time scales of the data samples in this visualization range from 6 hours to as short as 12 seconds and the display rate varies throughout the movie. The region and event of interest is the solar flare over solar active region AR9906 on April 21, 2002. In this visualization, black corresponds to no (current) instrument coverage (there used to be a LASCO C1 camera inside the ring of LASCO C2, but that instrument didn't recover after SOHO was temporarily 'lost' in 1998).
Opening View of the Sun
Metadata
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Sensor
SOHO/MDI, SOHO/EIT, SOHO/LASCO -
Animation ID
2511 -
Video ID
SVS2002-0017 -
Start Timecode
01:12:40:00 -
End Timecode
01:13:54:29 -
Animator
Tom Bridgman -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2002/08/29 -
Scientist
None -
Keywords
Sun, Solar Flare, Solar Active Region, Active Region 9906, Coronal Mass Ejection, CME, X-ray -
DLESE Subject
Space science -
Data Date
SOHO/LASCO-C2:2002/04/18T00:06:05-2002/04/23T23:51:10, SOHO/LASCO-C3:2002/04/18T00:18:05-2002/04/23T23:42:05, SOHO/EIT:2002/04/20T00:00:10-2002/04/21T23:52:09, SOHO/MDI:2002/04/10T23:59:31-2002/04/21T17:35:31, TRACE:2002/04/21T00:10:59-2002/04/21T07:58:34, RHESSI:2002/04/21T00:42:52-2002/04/21T01:32:18 -
Story URL
stories/RHESSI_cme_20030617/index.html -
Animation Type
Regular -
Other Credits
A special thanks to all those who contributed data and advice without which this product would not have been possible (in no particular order): Alexander Kosovichev (Stanford University), Todd Hoeksema (Stanford University), Steele Hill (L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation/GSFC), Brian R. Dennis (NASA/GSFC), Peter T. Gallagher (L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation/GSFC), Joseph B. Gurman (NASA/GSFC), Nathan Rich (Interferometrics Inc./NRL), Bernhard Fleck (NASA/GSFC), Craig DeForest (SwRI), Philip Scherrer (Stanford University)