TRACE: Viewing a Coronal Loop

  • Released Wednesday, July 14, 1999
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Zooming into the sun to show an animation of the Bastille Day solar flare from TRACE imagery

Image of the Sun, constructed from a mosaic of TRACE images.

Image of the Sun, constructed from a mosaic of TRACE images.

Close-up on the flare region.

Close-up on the flare region.

The Flare. The X pattern is an instrument artifact.

The Flare. The X pattern is an instrument artifact.

After the flare. Hot gas moving along the magnetic field lines.

After the flare. Hot gas moving along the magnetic field lines.

Slate title from video tape reads, 'Viewing a damped coronal loop oscilations induced by a flare in a solar active region.'

Slate title from video tape reads, 'Viewing a damped coronal loop oscilations induced by a flare in a solar active region.'

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, July 14, 1999.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:59 PM EDT.

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Papers used in this visualization

V.M. Nakariakov, L. Ofman, E. DeLuca, B. Roberts, J.M. Davila, TRACE Observation of Damped Coronal Loop Oscillations: Implications for Coronal Heating, Science, 285, 862, 1999

Datasets used in this visualization

  • [TRACE]

    ID: 106
    Dates used: 1998/07/14

    The TRACE satellite views the Sun at ultraviolet wavelengths with high temporal (approximately 1-12 seconds) and spatial (1 arcsecond per pixel) resolution. Launched on April 2, 1998, it orbits the Earth in a Sun-synchronous orbit.

    This dataset can be found at: http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex/trace/

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