Wave
Like fans doing the wave at a stadium, large cell-like features called supergranules are moving in a vertical motion, giving the illusion of the solar surface rotating faster than the Sun.
The sun surface in motion. Large cell-like features on the Sun called supergranules are seen as white stripes.
Close up of a supergranule.
Sun supergranules, the white stripes down the Sun.
Sun supergranules, the white stripes down the Sun.
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Conceptual Image Lab
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Animator
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
Missions
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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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Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, March 26, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.