SOHO/TRACE Intro
On April 3, 2009, countries from around the world participated in the '100 Hours of Astronomy' webcast to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. This movie was used to introduce the SOHO/TRACE segment. Alex Young and Dawn Meyers, NASA scientists, describe how both SOHO and TRACE view the sun in their own unique way.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Video editor
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
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Producers
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
- Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientists
- C. Alex Young (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Dawn C. Myers (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Videographer
- Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, April 7, 2009.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
100 Hours of Astronomy
(ID: 2009021)
Friday, March 27, 2009 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Jesse Allen (Raytheon)
Datasets used in this visualization
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[SOHO]
ID: 93SOHO monitors the Sun with a variety of instruments. Among the SOHO instruments is the Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI) and the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT).
This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov
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[TRACE]
ID: 106The TRACE satellite views the Sun at ultraviolet wavelengths with high temporal (approximately 1-12 seconds) and spatial (1 arcsecond per pixel) resolution. Launched on April 2, 1998, it orbits the Earth in a Sun-synchronous orbit.
This dataset can be found at: http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex/trace/
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