A Multi-Mission View of the AR9906 Solar Flare without Instrument Labels

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Here's a view of the Sun, from the point of view of a fleet of Sun-observing spacecraft - SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI. The time scales of the data samples in this visualization range from 6 hours to as short as 12 seconds and the display rate varies throughout the movie. The region and event of interest is the solar flare over solar active region AR9906 on April 21, 2002. In this visualization, black corresponds to no (current) instrument coverage (there used to be a LASCO C1 camera inside the ring of LASCO C2, but that instrument didn't recover after SOHO was temporarily 'lost' in 1998).

This movie starts with a wide-angle view of the Sun and presents different datasets from SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI centered on a flare and CME.

Opening View of the Sun

Opening View of the Sun

Opening view of SOHO-MDI data

Opening view of SOHO-MDI data

SOHO-LASCO C3 data

SOHO-LASCO C3 data

SOHO-LASCO C2 data

SOHO-LASCO C2 data

SOHO-EIT

SOHO-EIT

TRACE and one RHESSI channel

TRACE and one RHESSI channel

TRACE and two RHESSI channels

TRACE and two RHESSI channels

The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C2 field of view.

The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C2 field of view.

The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C3 field of view just before bursting

The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C3 field of view just before bursting

Video slate image reads "A Multi-Mission View of the AR9906 Solar Flare without Instrument LabelsHere's a view of the Sun, from the point of view of a fleet of Sun-observing spacecraft - SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI. The time scales of the data samples in this visualization range from 6 hours to as short as 12 seconds and the display rate varies throughout the movie. The region and event of interest is the solar flare over solar active region AR9906 on April 21, 2002. In this visualization, black corresponds to no (current) instrument coverage (there used to be a LASCO C1 camera inside the ring of LASCO C2, but that instrument didn't recover after SOHO was temporarily 'lost' in 1998)".

Video slate image reads "A Multi-Mission View of the AR9906 Solar Flare without Instrument Labels

Here's a view of the Sun, from the point of view of a fleet of Sun-observing spacecraft - SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI. The time scales of the data samples in this visualization range from 6 hours to as short as 12 seconds and the display rate varies throughout the movie. The region and event of interest is the solar flare over solar active region AR9906 on April 21, 2002. In this visualization, black corresponds to no (current) instrument coverage (there used to be a LASCO C1 camera inside the ring of LASCO C2, but that instrument didn't recover after SOHO was temporarily 'lost' in 1998)".

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. A special thanks to all those who contributed data and advice without which this product would not have been possible (in no particular order): Alexander Kosovichev (Stanford University), Todd Hoeksema (Stanford University), Steele Hill (L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation/GSFC), Brian R. Dennis (NASA/GSFC), Peter T. Gallagher (L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation/GSFC), Joseph B. Gurman (NASA/GSFC), Nathan Rich (Interferometrics Inc./NRL), Bernhard Fleck (NASA/GSFC), Craig DeForest (SwRI), Philip Scherrer (Stanford University)

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Missions

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Datasets used in this visualization

  • [RHESSI: X-ray Imaging Spectrometer]

    ID: 101
    Sensor: X-ray Imaging Spectrometer Dates used: 2002/04/21T00:42:52-2002/04/21T01:32:18

    The RHESSI instrument is an imaging spectrometer observing the Sun at X-ray to gamma-rays (photon energies of 3 keV to 17 MeV) at time resolutions of a few seconds. (eV stands for "electron volt" and is a unit of energy. Note that photons of visible light have energies of 2-3 eV. 1 keV is a thousand electron volts and 1 MeV is a million electron volts.

    This dataset can be found at: http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/hessi/

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  • LASCO/C2 (C2) [SOHO: Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO)]

    ID: 160
    Sensor: Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO) Dates used: 2002/04/21T00:42:52-2002/04/21T01:32:18

    This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov

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  • LASCO/C3 (C3) [SOHO: Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO)]

    ID: 161
    Sensor: Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO) Dates used: 2002/04/21T00:42:52-2002/04/21T01:32:18

    This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov

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  • SOHO/EIT 195 (195 Filter) [SOHO: Extreme-UV Imaging Telescope (EIT)]

    ID: 477
    Sensor: Extreme-UV Imaging Telescope (EIT) Dates used: 2002/04/20T00:00:10-2002/04/21T23:52:09

    This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov

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  • Continuum [SOHO: Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI)]

    ID: 619
    Sensor: Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI) Dates used: 2002/04/10T23:59:31-2002/04/21T17:35:31

    This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov

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  • 195 Angstroms [TRACE: Optical Telescope]

    ID: 620
    Sensor: Optical Telescope Dates used: 2002/04/21T00:10:59-2002/04/21T07:58:34
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