Halloween Solar Storms from SOHO/EIT and SOHO/LASCO

  • Released Thursday, July 8, 2004
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This movie is a combination of SOHO/EIT at 195 angstroms as well as the LASCO/C2 and C3 cameras. At this scale we can see the flashes from solar flares in SOHO/EIT (green) and the subsequent coronal mass ejections in SOHO/LASCO/C2 (red) and SOHO/LASCO/C3 (blue). This movie is synchronized to play with animation IDs 2960 and 2959. For more information on how X-ray solar flares are classified (B, C, M, X), visit SpaceWeather.com.

A movie showing two weeks of high solar activity from the SOHO satellite.

A group of active regions come into view.

A group of active regions come into view.

The X17 event launches matter Earthward. The structures visible in the LASCO fields-of-view (red and blue) are outflows from earlier events.

The X17 event launches matter Earthward. The structures visible in the LASCO fields-of-view (red and blue) are outflows from earlier events.

Solar protons from the Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) generate speckles in the CCD detectors of the SOHO cameras.

Solar protons from the Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) generate speckles in the CCD detectors of the SOHO cameras.

The last big X-class flare as the active region rotates back to the far side of the Sun.

The last big X-class flare as the active region rotates back to the far side of the Sun.

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NASA/ESA, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Thursday, July 8, 2004.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.

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