Under the Rotating Sunspot (Layers 012)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Under the Rotating Sunspot (Layers 0, 1, 2)

Using the SOHO Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI), scientists can use a process called Time-Distance helioseismology to determine temperatures and fluid flows under the surface of the Sun.

Layer 5000 kilometers below the solar surface.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    SOHO/MDI

  • Animation ID

    2304

  • Video ID

    SVS2001-0026

  • Start Timecode

    01:08:50:00

  • End Timecode

    01:09:23:00

  • Animator

    Tom Bridgman

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2001/12/06

  • Scientist

    Junwei Zhao (Stanford University), Alexander G. Kosovichev (Stanford University)

  • Keywords

    Sun, Sunspots, Helioseismology

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science

  • Data Date

    2000/08/08-2000/08/10

  • Pao ID

    G01-112

  • Story URL

    http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20011210insidesun.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular