Halloween solar Storms

  • Credit

    NASA/ESA, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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.

A movie showing two weeks of high solar activity from the SOHO satellite.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    SOHO/EIT, SOHO/LASCO

  • Animation ID

    2961

  • Video ID

    None

  • 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

    Edward C. Stone (California Institute of Technology), Carl E. Walz (NASA/HQ), Thomas H. Zurbuchen (University of Michigan)

  • Keywords

    Sun, Solar Active Region, Solar Flare, Coronal Mass Ejection, CME

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science

  • Data Date

    2003/10/25T00:00:11-2003/11/07T23:48:35

  • Animation Type

    Regular