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The Spinning Sunspot

Released Monday, December 10, 2001

ID: 2287

- Visualizations by:
- Tom Bridgman

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Zoom-in to the sunspot group and watch it rotate

Full sun view with SOHO-MDI data

Full sun view with SOHO-MDI data

Close-up on the sunspot group

Close-up on the sunspot group

Merging of the small spot with the larger spot

Merging of the small spot with the larger spot

Final view of the merged and rotated sunspot

Final view of the merged and rotated sunspot

Slate title from video tape reads, 'SOHO and TRACE View a Spinning Sunspot.'

Slate title from video tape reads, 'SOHO and TRACE View a Spinning Sunspot.'

For More Information

See http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20011210insidesun.html

Sun

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Scientists
- Junwei Zhao (Stanford University)
- Alexander G. Kosovichev (Stanford University)

Missions

This page is related to the following missions:

SOHO
TRACE

Series

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Spinning Sunspot

Datasets used

Continuum [SOHO: Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI)]
ID: 619

Sensor: Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI) Collected by: NASA and ESA

This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov
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This page was originally published on Monday, December 10, 2001.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.

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