TRACE: Viewing a Coronal Loop
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.
Close-up on the flare region.
The Flare. The X pattern is an instrument artifact.
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.'
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientist
- Leon Ofman (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
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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
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
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[TRACE]
ID: 106The 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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Release date
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.