2007 SPACE SCIENCE VIDEOTAPES |
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| HINODE CAPTURES NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHENOMENA ON THE SUN (720p/60) | G07-HD022 | 3/21/07 | 5:42 | Hinode (Sunrise), initially known as Solar-B, was launched in Japan on September 23, 2006. Since then, Hinode has been providing the highest resolution images of the sun's active atmosphere and its magnetic field taken from space. These detailed images of the sun bring scientists a step closer to understanding why the sun's atmosphere is so much hotter than its visible surface and learning how the violent solar storms are born and evolve in a massive release of energy, sometimes directed at Earth. Led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Hinode is a collaboration between the space agencies of Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe.
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| ITEM (1): Hinode Sunspot Image - Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) provides crystal-clear images of features on the sun's surface. This video shows a whirl of a new developing sunspot colliding with an existing spot that explodes into a major solar flare. The solar flare shown in this movie was captured on December 13, 2006. The flare produced high-energy protons that reached the Earth at the time of STS-116 Space Shuttle flight. The flare is shown in 3 different wavelengths.
Courtesy: NASA/JAXA
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| ITEM (2): Hinode Chromosphere Movie - Hinode captures this very dynamic movie of the chromosphere. The Chromosphere is a thin "layer" of solar atmosphere "sandwiched" between visible surface, photosphere, and corona. Chromosphere is the source of ultra violet radiation. Before these images, scientists thought the chromosphere was a motionless "layer". Hinode shows that this description is obsolete. The observatory reveals a chromosphere that appears as constantly moving field lines like grassland with tall grass swaying under the wind.
Courtesy: NASA/JAXA
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| ITEM (3): Hinode Flare Movie (Black & White) - The large frame shows a solar flare on the limb of the sun taken by Hinode's Solar Optical telescope (SOT). The small box shows the same flare captured by the X-ray telescope (XRT). The combination of these two images shows how interconnected and dynamic are the processes throughout the solar atmosphere.
Courtesy: NASA/JAXA
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| ITEM (4): Hinode "Chaotic Dynamo" - Sunspots contain a strong magnetic field. Scientists believe that this magnetic field is generated by flows of plasma and gas deep below the surface of the sun, in the process called a dynamo. With Hinode, scientists discovered new class of dynamo, referred to as a "chaotic dynamo" that is visible on the surface of the sun, called the photosphere.
Courtesy: NASA/JAXA
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| ITEM (5): A Solar Flare Captured By Hinode's X-ray Telescope - The sun's outer atmosphere, known as corona, is the spawning ground for the largest explosions in the solar system. By combining observations from Hinode's optical, X-ray, and Extreme Ultraviolet imaging instruments, scientists will be able to study how changes in the sun's magnetic field trigger powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections that affect the Earth.
Courtesy: NASA
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| ITEM (6): Hinode Solar Granules Images - Hinode's instruments provide better spatial resolution and the images reveal amazing details of the Sun. The light and dark blobs on these images are solar granules; masses of hot gas that rise and fall like boiling water. Each granule is about the size of a terrestrial continent.
Courtesy: NASA/JAXA
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| ITEM (7): Quiet Sun - This movie shows the corona. We see movement in the transition layer above the chromosphere resulting from what is happening on the photosphere. These observations provide a new light on the role of photospheric processes on coronal heating.
Courtesy: NASA/JAXA
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| ITEM (8): Hinode Spacecraft Animations - Animations showing artist's representation of Hinode in sun-synchronous orbit and Hinode's beauty passes.
Courtesy: NASA/JAXA
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| ITEM (9): Hinode Launch - Footage showing the launch of Hinode on September 23, 2006.
Courtesy: JAXA
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