August 24, 2014: Magnificent M-flare
- Visualizations by:
- Tom Bridgman
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M-flares are not the most powerful flares the Sun can emit, but sometimes even they can exhibit visually exciting behavior.
Here we show the lead-up to an M-flare which lauches a large amount of plasma into space. The eruption takes place starting around 12:00 UTC and launches over the next 15 minutes. But stay with it, and you'll also see some of the plasma falling back towards the Sun around 13:50 UTC.
Here we show the lead-up to an M-flare which lauches a large amount of plasma into space. The eruption takes place starting around 12:00 UTC and launches over the next 15 minutes. But stay with it, and you'll also see some of the plasma falling back towards the Sun around 13:50 UTC.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, the SDO Science Team, and the Virtual Solar Observatory.
Animator
- Tom Bridgman (GST) [Lead]
Scientist
- William D. Pesnell (NASA/GSFC)
Producer
- Genna Duberstein (ADNET)
Project support
- Ian Jones (ADNET)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
SDO AIA 131 (A.K.A. 131 Filter) (Collected with the AIA sensor)
JOINT SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER 2014-08-24T07:45 to 2014-08-24T16:00
Dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
See more visualizations using this data setSDO AIA 171 (A.K.A. 171 Filter) (Collected with the AIA sensor)
JOINT SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER 2014-08-24T07:45 to 2014-08-24T16:00
Dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
See more visualizations using this data setSDO AIA 304 (A.K.A. 304 Filter) (Collected with the AIA sensor)
JOINT SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER 2014-08-24T07:45 to 2014-08-24T16:00
Dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
See more visualizations using this data setNote: 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.
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