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\rDance of the Solar System is the First Solar Event of 2017
\rStay Tuned for the Big Event of 2017, the August Solar Eclipse!\r
It may not feel like it this week in parts of the country, but spring begins in just a few days. March 20 kicks off the first day of astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere. On March 20, the day of the spring Equinox, the sun will pass directly over the Earth’s equator, giving the entire planet equal hours of day and night. This is the seasonal marker in Earth’s orbit around the sun when daylight hours begin to get longer than night. \r\r
This dance of the solar system is just one celestial event we’ll see this year. On August 21 all 50 states in the U.S. will be in prime position to see a partial or even a total solar eclipse, which happens when the moon is in perfect position to blot out the sun’s bright disk. The last time the U.S. saw a coast-to-coast solar eclipse was in 1918! The path of totality runs from Oregon to South Carolina.\r\r
NASA will lead an unprecedented science initiative during the eclipse that will draw on the collaboration of the public to help collect images, data and even temperature readings from across the nation during the hour-and-a-half it takes to cross the continent. \r\r
NASA scientists are available on Monday, March 20 from 6:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EDT to help your viewers ring in the new season and talk about the big solar event this August.\r\r
***To book a window contact***\rMichelle Handleman / michelle.z.handleman@nasa.gov/ 301-286-0918 \r\r
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4.\tHow do eclipses help us find planets orbiting other stars? \r
5.\tWhere can we learn more?\r\r
Live Shot Details: \r\r
Location: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Greenbelt, Maryland\r\r
Scientists:\r
Dr. Alex Young/ NASA Scientist\r
Dr. Yari Collado-Vega / NASA Scientist [Interviews in Spanish]
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The graph of solar activity shows the sunspot number, a measurement based on the number of individual spots and the number of sunspot groups. In this case, the line represents a smoothed 26-day average to more clearly show the overall trend.Music: \"Web of Intrigue\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || SDO_Year7_Graph_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [1.2 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_Good_H264_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [239.0 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_1080.mov (1920x1080) [366.0 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_FINAL_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [142.4 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_Compatible.m4v (960x540) [98.1 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_FINAL_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [142.5 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_Compatible.webm (960x540) [24.9 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [12.1 GB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_FINAL_youtube_hq.mov (3840x2160) [6.8 GB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7-Good_H264_4K.m4v (3840x2160) [1.1 GB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_H264_4K.mov (3840x2160) [474.8 MB] || WMV_12500_SDO_Year_7_FINAL_HD.wmv (3840x2160) [2.2 GB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.4 KB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.4 KB] || ", "release_date": "2017-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:47:57.135041-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 416535, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012500/a012500/SDO_Year7_Title_print.jpg", "filename": "SDO_Year7_Title_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "SDO: Year 7 title still", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 4552, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4552/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "2017 Eclipse State Maps", "description": "The path of totality passes through 14 states during the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. A map of each of these states, created for NASA's official eclipse 2017 website, is presented here. Except for Montana, each map is 8 inches wide (or high) at 300 DPI. The umbra is shown at 3-minute intervals, with times in the local time zone at the umbra center. The duration of totality is outlined in 30-second increments. Interstate highways are blue, other major roads are red, and secondary roads are gray.Some sources list only 12 states for this eclipse, but in fact the path of totality also grazes the southwestern borders of both Montana and Iowa. The Montana part of the path is in a roadless area at the southern end of the Beaverhead Mountains, a range that defines sections of both the Montana-Idaho border and the Continental Divide. The Iowa part of the path is west of Interstate 29 near Hamburg, south of 310 Street, and bounded on the west by the Missouri River. It includes the Lower Hamburg Bend Wildlife Management Area. || ", "release_date": "2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2024-10-09T00:07:12.503391-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 416580, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004500/a004552/or_preview.jpg", "filename": "or_preview.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Oregon", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 4518, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4518/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "2017 Total Solar Eclipse Map and Shapefiles", "description": "A map of the United States showing the path of totality for the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse. This is version 2 of the map, available at both 5400 × 2700 and 10,800 × 5400. || usa_eclipse_map_v2_print.jpg (1024x512) [192.9 KB] || usa_eclipse_map_v2.tif (5400x2700) [26.7 MB] || usa_eclipse_map_v2x2.tif (10800x5400) [85.4 MB] || ", "release_date": "2016-12-13T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T00:07:38.455547-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 418929, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004500/a004518/usa_eclipse_map_v2_print.jpg", "filename": "usa_eclipse_map_v2_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A map of the United States showing the path of totality for the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse. This is version 2 of the map, available at both 5400 × 2700 and 10,800 × 5400.", "width": 1024, "height": 512, "pixels": 524288 } }, { "id": 12117, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12117/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Visualizing the 2017 All-American Eclipse", "description": "Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASAgovVideo YouTube channel.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || sun_earth.0240_print.jpg (1024x576) [41.2 KB] || sun_earth.0240_searchweb.png (320x180) [37.9 KB] || sun_earth.0240_thm.png (80x40) [3.9 KB] || LARGE_MP4_12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [98.4 MB] || 12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2.mov (1920x1080) [2.6 GB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [302.9 MB] || WEBM_12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2.webm (960x540) [37.4 MB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.3 GB] || 12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2.en_US.srt [1.5 KB] || 12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2.en_US.vtt [1.5 KB] || 12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2_lowres.mp4 (480x272) [13.6 MB] || NASA_PODCAST_12117_visualizing_2017_eclipseV2_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [17.1 MB] || ", "release_date": "2016-04-14T12:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:48:43.369447-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 436253, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012100/a012117/sun_earth.0240_print.jpg", "filename": "sun_earth.0240_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASAgovVideo YouTube channel.This video is also available on our YouTube channel.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 12144, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12144/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "SDO: Year 6", "description": "This ultra-high definition (3840x2160) video shows the sun in the 171 angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. It covers a time period of January 2, 2015 to January 28, 2016 at a cadence of one frame every hour, or 24 frames per day. This timelapse is repeated with narration by solar scientist Nicholeen Viall and contains close-ups and annotations. 171 angstrom light highlights material around 600,000 Kelvin and shows features in the upper transition region and quiet corona of the sun. The video is available to download here at 59.94 frames per second, double the rate YouTube currently allows for UHD content. 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It covers a time period of January 2, 2015 to January 28, 2016 at a cadence of one frame every hour, or 24 frames per day. This timelapse is repeated with narration by solar scientist Nicholeen Viall and contains close-ups and annotations. 171 angstrom light highlights material around 600,000 Kelvin and shows features in the upper transition region and quiet corona of the sun. The video is available to download here at 59.94 frames per second, double the rate YouTube currently allows for UHD content. The music is titled \"Tides\" and is from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 11742, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11742/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "SDO: Year 5", "description": "Highlights from the Solar Dynamics Observatory's five years of watching the sun.The music is \"Expanding Universe\" and \"Facing the Unknown\" both from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.Information about the individual clips used in this video is here.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO || Year_5_STILL_print.jpg (1024x576) [73.2 KB] || Year_5_STILL_1080.jpg (1920x1080) [289.2 KB] || Year_5_STILL_1080.png (1920x1080) [2.2 MB] || Year_5_STILL.png (3840x2160) [8.1 MB] || SDO_Year_5_List.jpg (2550x3300) [988.9 KB] || Year_5_STILL.jpg (3840x2160) [857.5 KB] || Year_5_STILL_web.jpg (320x180) [14.0 KB] || Year_5_STILL_searchweb.png (180x320) [31.7 KB] || Year_5_STILL_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_appletv.webm (960x540) [35.1 MB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_appletv_subtitles.m4v (960x540) [123.0 MB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_appletv.m4v (960x540) [123.2 MB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [145.5 MB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_MPEG4_1920X1080_2997.mp4 (1920x1080) [373.3 MB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_H264_Good_1280x720_2997.mov (1280x720) [737.8 MB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [50.5 MB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5.en_US.vtt [1.3 KB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5.en_US.srt [1.3 KB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_H264_Good_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.6 GB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [26.7 MB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [4.0 GB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_H264_Best_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [5.1 GB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_MPEG4_1920X1080_2997.hwshow [123 bytes] || ", "release_date": "2015-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-02-02T00:20:40.182941-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 447094, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011700/a011742/Year_5_STILL_2k.jpg", "filename": "Year_5_STILL_2k.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Large square version of the SDO 5 Year mosaic.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO", "width": 2048, "height": 2048, "pixels": 4194304 } }, { "id": 11168, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11168/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "SDO Sees Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun", "description": "Eruptive events on the sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and some with complex moving structures in association with changes in magnetic field lines that loop up into the sun's atmosphere, the corona. On July 19, 2012, an eruption occurred on the sun that produced all three. A moderately powerful solar flare exploded on the sun's lower right hand limb, sending out light and radiation. Next came a CME, which shot off to the right out into space. And then, the sun treated viewers to one of its dazzling magnetic displays — a phenomenon known as coronal rain. Over the course of the next day, hot plasma in the corona cooled and condensed along strong magnetic fields in the region. Magnetic fields, themselves, are invisible, but the charged plasma is forced to move along the lines, showing up brightly in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 angstroms, which highlights material at a temperature of about 50,000 Kelvin. This plasma acts as a tracer, helping scientists watch the dance of magnetic fields on the sun, outlining the fields as it slowly falls back to the solar surface. The footage in this video was collected by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's AIA instrument. SDO collected one frame every 12 seconds, and the movie plays at 30 frames per second, so each second in this video corresponds to 6 minutes of real time. The video covers 12:30 a.m. EDT to 10:00 p.m. EDT on July 19, 2012.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "release_date": "2013-02-20T10:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:23.303233-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 469204, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011100/a011168/Raining_Loops_Still_2.jpg", "filename": "Raining_Loops_Still_2.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "On July 19, 2012, an eruption occurred on the sun that produced a moderately powerful solar flare and a dazzling magnetic display known as coronal rain. Hot plasma in the corona cooled and condensed along strong magnetic fields in the region. Magnetic fields, are invisible, but the charged plasma is forced to move along the lines, showing up brightly in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 angstroms, and outlining the fields as it slowly falls back to the solar surface.Music: \"Thunderbolt\" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of artist.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 3966, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3966/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Heliospheric Future: Parker Solar Probe (formerly Solar Probe Plus) & Solar Orbiter", "description": "Two future missions scheduled for detailed studies of the Sun and solar atmosphere are Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter.Parker Solar Probe will move in a highly-elliptical orbit, using gravity-assists from Venus to move it closer to the Sun with each pass. The goal is to get the spacecraft to fly through the corona at a distance of 9.5 solar radii.Solar Orbiter will use Earth and Venus gravity assists to move into a relatively circular orbit, inside the orbit of Mercury for monitoring the Sun. || ", "release_date": "2012-09-20T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-05T22:14:27.741281-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 474272, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003966/FutureHelioMissions.slate_HEEmove.HD1080i.1600.jpg", "filename": "FutureHelioMissions.slate_HEEmove.HD1080i.1600.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This movie illustrates the planned trajectories for Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } ], "sources": [], "products": [], "newer_versions": [], "older_versions": [], "alternate_versions": [] }