'Bastille Day' Flare Animation

  • Released Tuesday, June 13, 2000
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Fly-in of TRACE full sun image to the flare location. Fade to a model of the field lines with a magnetogram of the solar surface. Pull back out to display a movie of flare images. This version uses lens flares to illustrate matter motion along the field lines.

Zoom in on the Sun to show the flare region.

TRACE image close-up on the region of the flare

TRACE image close-up on the region of the flare

Model of the field lines around the flare region. Bright spots represent plasma moving along the field lines.

Model of the field lines around the flare region. Bright spots represent plasma moving along the field lines.

Video slate image reads, "TRACE'Bastille Day' FlareMagnetic Field Model with Plasma Motions".

Video slate image reads, "TRACE

'Bastille Day' Flare

Magnetic Field Model with Plasma Motions".

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Tuesday, June 13, 2000.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.

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Papers used in this visualization

Aulanier, G., DeLuca, E.E., Antiochos, S.K., McMullen, R.A., & Golub, L. 2000, Astrophysical Journal, 540, 1126

Datasets used in this visualization

  • [TRACE]

    ID: 106
    Dates used: 1998/07/14

    The TRACE satellite views the Sun at ultraviolet wavelengths with high temporal (approximately 1-12 seconds) and spatial (1 arcsecond per pixel) resolution. Launched on April 2, 1998, it orbits the Earth in a Sun-synchronous orbit.

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