NASA's Heliophysics Gallery

The Sun is a major influence on the Earth's weather and climate. The focus of NASA's Sun-Solar System Connection is to understand this relationship from the perspective of the entire system.

You can find out more by visiting the Heliophysics Page, the NASA Living with a Star program, and the Solar-Terrestrial Probe web site.

• Latest Releases
• New Heliophysics Missions
• NASA Heliophysics HD Resources
• The Missions
• Selected Keywords & Series

Latest Releases

Here are visualization products we've recently released.
IBEX First Skymap Release	The Solar Dynamo	Sentinels of the Heliosphere

New Heliophysics Missions

SDO Pre-Launch

THEMIS

STEREO

NASA Heliophysics HD Resources

We live in an exciting environment: the heliosphere, the exotic outer atmosphere of a star. The heliosphere is an immense magnetic bubble that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto. This bubble contains our solar system, solar wind, and the entire solar magnetic field. The heliosphere is also the one part of the cosmos accessible to direct scientific investigation; our only hands-on astrophysical laboratory. As our society becomes ever more dependent on technology, we are increasingly susceptible to space weather disturbances in this tumultuous region. We call the study of the connections between the sun and the solar system ‘Heliophysics.'
2003's Halloween Solar Storms	Multi-Mission Solar Movie	STEREO Images of the Sun
3-D Full Disk Sun	Space Weather	Solar Cycle
Sunspots	Solar Flares	Aurora
Mesosphere	Ionosphere	Eclipses
Comets

The Missions

STEREO	Sentinels of the Heliosphere	THEMIS
IBEX	C/NOFS	SDO
SOHO	TRACE	RHESSI
AIM	Cluster	GOES-12/SXI Soft X-ray Imager
SORCE	IMAGE	Polar

Selected Keywords & Series

Solar Flares	Coronal Mass Ejection	Space Weather
Sunspots	Aurora	Solar Eclipse
Transit	Under the Sun	Solar Cycle
Solar Phenomena	Solar Influence	Data Analysis
Computer Modeling

Related links:
2004 Sun-Earth Connection News Stories
2003 Sun-Earth Connection News Stories
2002 Sun-Earth Connection News Stories
2001 Sun-Earth Connection News Stories

Contacts for Heliophysics Visualization Project are:

Rani C. Gran Multimedia Producer/ GSFC Public Affairs Office Rani.C.Gran@nasa.gov
Tom Bridgman Data Visualization William.T.Bridgman@nasa.gov	Walt Feimer Animation Walt.Feimer@nasa.gov