Bastille Day Flare Without Matter Motion

  • 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 does not show the matter motion along the field lines.

Zoom in to the Bastille Day flare (1998) and fade to a model of the magnetic field lines in the region.

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

Video slate image reads, "TRACE

'Bastille Day' Flare

Magnetic Field Model".

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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.

    This dataset can be found at: http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex/trace/

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