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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).

This movie starts with a wide-angle view of the Sun and presents different datasets from SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI centered on a flare and CME.    This movie starts with a wide-angle view of the Sun and presents different datasets from SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI centered on a flare and CME.
Duration: 28.0 seconds
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Opening View of the Sun    Opening View of the Sun

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Opening view of SOHO-MDI data    Opening view of SOHO-MDI data

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SOHO-LASCO C3 data    SOHO-LASCO C3 data

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SOHO-LASCO C2 data    SOHO-LASCO C2 data

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SOHO-EIT    SOHO-EIT

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TRACE and one RHESSI channel    TRACE and one RHESSI channel

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TRACE and two RHESSI channels    TRACE and two RHESSI channels

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The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C2 field of view.    The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C2 field of view.

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The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C3 field of view just before bursting    The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C3 field of view just before bursting

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Animation Number:2511
Animator:Tom Bridgman (SVS) (Lead)
Completed:2002-08-29
Instruments:SOHO/EIT
 SOHO/LASCO
 SOHO/MDI
 RHESSI/X-ray Imaging Spectrometer
 TRACE
Data Collected: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
Series:Multi-Mission Solar Movie
Video:SVS2002-0017 *
Keywords:
SVS >> Active Region 9906
SVS >> CME
SVS >> Coronal Mass Ejection
SVS >> Solar Active Region
DLESE >> Space science
SVS >> Sun
SVS >> X-ray
GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Flares
More Information on this topic available at:
stories/RHESSI_cme_20030617/index.html
 
 
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Scientific Visualization Studio. 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)


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