Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/NOAA/University of Michigan
Halloween Solar Storms from SOHO/EIT and SOHO/LASCO
The NOAA POES Satellite Detects Record Particle Flows into the Earth's Upper Atmosphere
This movie is a combination of SOHO/EIT at 195 Angstroms as well as the LASCO/C2 and C3 cameras. At this scale we can see the flashes from solar flares in SOHO/EIT (green) and the subsequent coronal mass ejections in SOHO/LASCO/C2 (red) and SOHO/LASCO/C3 (blue). This movie is synchronized to play with animation IDs 2960 (http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002900/a002960) and 2959 (http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002900/a002959). For more information on how X-ray solar flares are classified (B, C, M, X), visit (http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/flareclasses.html).
This set of still images from the NOAA/POES satellite are derived from measurements by particle detectors in low Earth orbit. The data are sampled along the orbit track and then interpolated in time and position for the rest of the polar region. This interpolation is responsible for the curved block-shaped artifacts in the images.
The particle flux increases dramatically over the polar cap, as they are carried Earthward along the magetic field lines.
Metadata
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Sensor
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Animation ID
2963 -
Video ID
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Start Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
End Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
Animator
Tom Bridgman -
Studio
SVS -
Writer
William Steigerwald -
Visualization Date
2004/07/08 -
Scientist
Xiaohua Fang (University of Michigan), David Evans (NOAA/SEC) -
DLESE Subject
Space science -
Animation Type
Stills
