Sun ID: 3898

Growing Sunspots - Tracking Closeup: February 2011

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on January 27, 2012

This visualization tracks the emergence and evolution of a sunspot group as seen by SDO/HMI starting in early February 2011 and continuing for two weeks. Images are sampled one hour apart.

In this version, the camera tracks the movement of the solar rotation.

At this scale, a 'shimmer' of the solar surface is visible, created by the turnover of convection cells. A higher-resolution view of these convection cells can be seen in Hinode imagery (see entry #3412, Hinode's High-resolution view of solar granulation).

For a full-disk view of the Sun, covering the same time frame, see entry #3897, Growing Sunspots - A Full Disk View: February 2011.

Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Producer

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
SDO

Data Used:

SDO/HMI/Continuum also referred to as: SDO Continuum

2011-02-06 to 2011-02-21

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Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Sunspots
SVS >> SDO
SVS >> Solar Dynamics Observatory
SVS >> Heliophysics
NASA Science >> Sun
SVS >> Visible Light 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