+ Visit NASA.gov + Advanced Search   + About the Server   + Animation List   + How to Use the Server Previous Animation Next Animation RHESSI and TRACE View of January 20, 2005 Solar Flare RHESSI spacecraft images of gamma-rays (blue) and X-rays (red) thrown off by the hottest part of the flare are shown with UV images from the TRACE spacecraft. The gamma rays are made by energetic protons at the Sun. Scientists were surprised that the gamma rays matched the energy spectrum of protons at Earth: the proton storm may have come directly from the Sun and not from the CME as anticipated.    Movie with co-registered TRACE and RHESSI imagery Duration: 18.0 seconds Available formats:   320x240     JPEG         9 KB   720x480 (29.97 fps) MPEG-2   15 MB   320x240 (30 fps) MPEG-1   2 MB   640x480 (30 fps) MPEG-1   9 MB   720x480 (30 fps) Frames How to play our movies    As the TRACE imager saturates, we see multiple hot-spots at the loop footpoints in RHESSI. Available formats:   2560 x 1920     TIFF 3 MB   320 x 240         JPEG 12 KB    Closeup of AR 10720. Blue high-energy emission marks the footpoints of the coronal loops. The lower-energy red emission is from the loop structure. See note below under ImageMods. Available formats:   2560 x 1920     TIFF 4 MB   320 x 240         JPEG 9 KB   160 x 80           PNG 19 KB   80 x 40             PNG   5 KB Animation Number: 3162 Animator: Tom Bridgman (Lead) Studio: SVS Completed: 2005-05-19 Scientists: Robert Lin (University of California, Berkeley)   Richard Mewaldt (California Institute of Technology)   Richard Nightingale (LMSAL) Instruments: RHESSI/X-ray Imaging Spectrometer   TRACE Data Collected: TRACE 1600A: 2005/01/20T06:20:00 - 2005/01/20T08:43:57, RHESSI: 2005/01/20T06:20:13 - 2005/01/20T07:26:00 Series: New Space Weather Mystery Keywords: SVS >> Solar Active Region DLESE >> Space science SVS >> Sun SVS >> X-ray GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Flares SVS >> Active Region 10720 SVS >> Space Weather More Information on this topic available at: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/solar_fireworks.html     Please give credit for this visualization to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Others who provided data and consultations: Karl Battams (NRL), Brian Dennis (NASA/GSFC), Sam Krucker (University of California at Berkeley) Back to Top + Privacy Policy and Important Notices + Reproduction Guidelines NASA Official: SVS Contact: Curator: