A Multi-Mission View of the AR9906 Solar Flare with Instrument Labels
Here's a view of the Sun, from the point of view of a fleet of Sun-observing spacecraft - SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI. The time scales of the data samples in this visualization range from six hours to as short as 12 seconds and the display rate varies throughout the movie. The region and event of interest is the solar flare over solar active region AR9906 on April 21, 2002. In this visualization, the instrument names appear in a color roughly matching the color used for the data, and black corresponds to no (current) instrument coverage.
Push-in showing a solar flare event viewed from different spacecraft.
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Opening View of the Sun
Opening view of SOHO-MDI data
SOHO-LASCO C3 data
SOHO-LASCO C2 data
SOHO-EIT
TRACE and one RHESSI channel
TRACE and two RHESSI channels
The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C2 field of view.
The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C3 field of view just before bursting
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Here's a view of the Sun, from the point of view of a fleet of Sun-observing spacecraft - SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI. The time scales of the data samples in this visualization range from 6 hours to as short as 12 seconds and the display rate varies throughout the movie. The region and event of interest is the solar flare over solar active region AR9906 on April 21, 2002. In this visualization, the instrument names appear in a color roughly matching the color used for the data, and black corresponds to no (current) instrument coverage".
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio. A special thanks to all those who contributed data and advice without which this product would not have been possible (in no particular order): Alexander Kosovichev (Stanford University), Todd Hoeksema (Stanford University), Steele Hill (L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation/GSFC), Brian R. Dennis (NASA/GSFC), Peter T. Gallagher (L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation/GSFC), Joseph B. Gurman (NASA/GSFC), Nathan Rich (Interferometrics Inc./NRL), Bernhard Fleck (NASA/GSFC), Craig DeForest (SwRI), Philip Scherrer (Stanford University)
Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, January 31, 2003.
This page was last updated on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 10:00 PM EST.
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
[RHESSI: X-ray Imaging Spectrometer]
ID: 101The RHESSI instrument is an imaging spectrometer observing the Sun at X-ray to gamma-rays (photon energies of 3 keV to 17 MeV) at time resolutions of a few seconds. (eV stands for "electron volt" and is a unit of energy. Note that photons of visible light have energies of 2-3 eV. 1 keV is a thousand electron volts and 1 MeV is a million electron volts.
This dataset can be found at: http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/hessi/
See all pages that use this datasetLASCO/C2 (C2) [SOHO: Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO)]
ID: 160This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov
See all pages that use this datasetLASCO/C3 (C3) [SOHO: Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO)]
ID: 161This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov
See all pages that use this datasetSOHO/EIT 195 (195 Filter) [SOHO: Extreme-UV Imaging Telescope (EIT)]
ID: 477This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov
See all pages that use this datasetContinuum [SOHO: Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI)]
ID: 619This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov
See all pages that use this dataset195 Angstroms [TRACE: Optical Telescope]
ID: 620
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