'Bastille Day' Flare Animation
Fly-in of TRACE full sun image to the flare location. Fade to a model of the field lines with a magnetogram of the solar surface. Pull back out to display a movie of flare images. This version uses lens flares to illustrate matter motion along the field lines.
Zoom in on the Sun to show the flare region.
TRACE image close-up on the region of the flare
Model of the field lines around the flare region. Bright spots represent plasma moving along the field lines.
Video slate image reads, "TRACE
'Bastille Day' Flare
Magnetic Field Model with Plasma Motions".
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
Animators
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
Scientist
- G. Aulanier (Naval Research Laboratory)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, June 13, 2000.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.
Missions
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This visualization can be found in the following series:Papers used in this visualization
Aulanier, G., DeLuca, E.E., Antiochos, S.K., McMullen, R.A., & Golub, L. 2000, Astrophysical Journal, 540, 1126
Datasets used in this visualization
[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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