Earth  Sun  ID: 3405

STEREO Panoramic View

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on March 1, 2007
The STEREO mission presents a new view of the space between the Earth and the Sun.

This view from the STEREO-A satellite, demonstrates the broad range of sky coverage by the five cameras of the SECCHI instrument.
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This movie starts at a close-up of the Sun in ultraviolet from STEREO EUVI and pulls out to reveal the broad sky coverage of the Heliospheric Imager (HI) cameras.
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A close-up view of the Sun from STEREO-A/EUVI.
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The camera pulls out to show the full solar disk.
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Next we expand the view to show the coverage by coronographs (COR1 and COR2). Note the streamers from the Sun.
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We expand the view again to show the coverage of the HI-1 camera to the left of the Sun. The dust corona is prominent on the right side of the image. The planet Venus saturates the vertical pixels in the detector, creating a bright line above and below the planet itself.
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We finally bring in the view of the HI-2 instrument which shows the outer regions of the dust corona and stars. Some constellations are visible. The dark region on the left side of the image is part of the 'Earth Occulter' in the HI-2 instrument.

Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Therese Kucera (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Michael Kaiser (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Angelos Vourlidas (NRL): Scientist
Russ Howard (NRL): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
STEREO

Data Used:
STEREO-A/Heliospheric Imager 2 (HI-2)
2006-12-21
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STEREO-A/Extreme UltraViolet Imager (EUVI)
2006-12-21
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STEREO-A/Coronograph 1 (COR1)
2006-12-21
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STEREO-A/Coronograph 2 (COR2)
2006-12-21
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STEREO-A/Heliospheric Imager 1 (HI-1)
2006-12-21
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STEREO/Extreme UltraViolet Imager (EUVI)/171 Angstroms
2006-12-21
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This item is part of this series:
STEREO Post-Launch

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Heliosphere
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions
SVS >> STEREO
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Science >> Sun
SVS >> Visible Light Imaging
SVS >> Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging
SVS >> EUV Imaging

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0