Blast from the Past: A Flare from January 2012
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.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producers
- Genna Duberstein (USRA)
- Scott Wiessinger (USRA)
Missions
This page is related to the following missions:Datasets used
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AIA 171 (171 Filter) [SDO: AIA]
ID: 680This dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
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Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, May 28, 2015.
This page was last updated on Sunday, January 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM EST.