Sun  ID: 4172

As Seen by SDO: The Carrington-Class CME of 2012

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on July 23, 2014
While SDO did not have a direct view of the region which launched the large coronal mass ejection (CME) of July 23, 2012, it still managed to catch a glimpse of the solar plasma as it launched into space.

The eruption becomes visible at timestamp 02:14:24 UTC in the lower right side of the movies below.
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A view of the July 23, 2012 CME from AIA in the 131 angstrom filter.
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A view of the July 23, 2012 CME from AIA in the 171 angstrom filter.
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A view of the July 23, 2012 CME from AIA in the 211 angstrom filter.
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A view of the July 23, 2012 CME from AIA in the 304 angstrom filter.
 

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Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (GST): Lead Animator
Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Producer
Joe Gurman (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems Inc.): Project Support
Ian Jones (ADNET Systems Inc.): Project Support
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, the SDO Science Team, and the Virtual Solar Observatory.

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Mission:
SDO

Data Used:
SDO/AIA/131 Filter 2012-07-23T01:00 - 2012-07-23T03:30
SDO/AIA/171 Filter 2012-07-23T01:00 - 2012-07-23T03:30
SDO/AIA/193 Filter 2012-07-23T01:00 - 2012-07-23T03:30
SDO/AIA/304 Filter 2012-07-23T01:00 - 2012-07-23T03:30
Note: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details nor the data sets themselves on our site.

This item is part of this series:
The Carrington-Class CME of 2012

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Solar Wind
SVS >> Sun
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Flares
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Ultraviolet
SVS >> Space Weather
SVS >> SDO
SVS >> Solar Dynamics Observatory
SVS >> Heliophysics
SVS >> Corona
NASA Science >> Sun
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Coronal Mass Ejections

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0