Blast from the Past: A Flare from January 2012

  • Released Thursday, May 28th, 2015
  • Updated Friday, August 25th, 2023 at 12:06AM
  • ID: 4309

A 1080 HD Full-Disk movie of the flare event.

A coronal loop (upper right quadrant of view) evolves with a slow buildup to a small flare eventually stabilizing as an arcade of coronal loops.

4Kx4K frames of the flare from Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) AIA instrument.

4Kx4K frames of the flare from Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) AIA instrument.

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Datasets used in this visualization

SDO AIA 171 (A.K.A. 171 Filter) (Collected with the AIA sensor)
JOINT SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER 2012-01-23T00:00 - 2012-01-23T08:00

Dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/

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