Sun  ID: 3502

Halloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/MDI Continuum

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on April 2, 2008

Here is a view of the full solar disk during a two-week period in October and November of 2003 which exhibited some of the largest solar activity events since the advent of space-based solar observing.

The Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI) records images at several very narrow wavelength bands in the visible light. These images are often used as proxies for white-light solar images.

This movie is part of a series of movies with matching cadence designed to play synchronously with each other. The other movies in this series are

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This movie displays nearly two weeks of MDI continuum data from around Halloween 2003.

Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC): Producer
William D. Pesnell (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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Mission:
SOHO

Data Used:
SOHO/Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI)/Continuum
NASA and ESA - 2003-10-25T00:00:11Z to 2003-11-07T23:48:35Z
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This item is part of these series:
SDO Pre-launch
Halloween Solar Storms 2003: A Multi-Mission View
The Sun

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> SOHO
SVS >> Solar Rotation
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Active Regions
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Events
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Sunspots
SVS >> Hyperwall
SVS >> For Educators
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