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            "release_date": "2026-02-27T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "See the Sun's Active Region: The Source of the Early-February Flares",
            "description": "This video condenses nine days of solar activity into 12 minutes, playing 1,080 times faster than real time. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO. Music Credit: “Atomic Drift,” “Echoes of the Unknown,” and “Particle Reverie” from the album Molecular Echoes. Written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Active_Region-STILL.jpg (1920x1080) [239.1 KB] || Active_Region-STILL_searchweb.png (320x180) [72.9 KB] || Active_Region-STILL_thm.png (80x40) [5.9 KB] || 14972ActiveRegionLongCaptions.en_US.srt [162 bytes] || 14972ActiveRegionLongCaptions.en_US.vtt [164 bytes] || 14972_Active_Region_Long_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.3 GB] || 14972_Active_Region_Long_Better.mp4 (1920x1080) [2.1 GB] || 14972_Active_Region_Long_YouTube.mp4 (1920x1080) [4.2 GB] || 14972_Active_Region_Long_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [11.5 GB] || ",
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            "title": "NASA's SDO Captures a February Solar Flare Triple Play",
            "description": "The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spotted three X-class flares on the Sun between February 21 and 22, 2024.  Watch this video to see what those events looked like in several wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light that SDO captures. The video opens with quick shots of the three flares in different wavelength blends.  The first is a blend of 131 and 171-angstrom-light imagery, the second is 171 and 304, and the last is 171 and 1600.  Each wavelength highlights different temperature plasma and reveals different layers and features of the Sun. 131 angstrom light shows both the extremely hot plasma of flares (6-10 million Kelvin) and cooler plasma (400,000 Kelvin).  Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDOMusic: \"Serene Reverie\" from the album Reflections.  Written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || February_Triple_Play_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [166.0 KB] || February_Triple_Play_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [2.1 MB] || February_Triple_Play_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.7 KB] || February_Triple_Play_Still_thm.png (80x40) [8.0 KB] || 14536_FebruaryXFlareTriplePlay_1080.webm (1920x1080) [26.0 MB] || Flare_Triple_Play_Captions.en_US.srt [811 bytes] || Flare_Triple_Play_Captions.en_US.vtt [772 bytes] || 14536_FebruaryXFlareTriplePlay_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [405.7 MB] || 14536_FebruaryXFlareTriplePlay_1080_small.mp4 (1920x1080) [166.7 MB] || 14536_FebruaryXFlareTriplePlay_ProRes_3840x2160.mov (3840x2160) [14.2 GB] || 14536_FebruaryXFlareTriplePlay_4k_25mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [670.9 MB] || 14536_FebruaryXFlareTriplePlay_4k_50mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.3 GB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2023-01-05T11:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "133 Days on the Sun",
            "description": "This 133-day time lapse of the Sun at 17.1nm shows brilliant active regions, dynamic loops of plasma and numerous solar eruptions.Music (in order): Concave Hexagon, Heptagon, Tetrahedron, Triangular Prism, Square-based Pyramid, Irregular Quadrilateral, Equilateral Triangle, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron, all from \"Geometric Shapes\" written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDOWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.Video Descriptive Text available. || 133DaysontheSun_StillSept15_print.jpg (1024x576) [134.4 KB] || 133DaysontheSun_StillSept15.png (3840x2160) [25.3 MB] || 133DaysontheSun_StillSept15.jpg (3840x2160) [1.1 MB] || 133DaysontheSun_StillSept15_searchweb.png (320x180) [74.6 KB] || 133DaysontheSun_StillSept15_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || 14263_133_Days_on_the_Sun_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [4.3 GB] || 14263_133_Days_on_the_Sun_1080.webm (1920x1080) [470.3 MB] || 14263_133_Days_on_the_Sun_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [156.8 GB] || 14263_133_Days_on_the_Sun_4k_100mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [41.5 GB] || 14263_133_Days_on_the_Sun_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [10.5 GB] || 133_Days-on_the_Sun_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.5 KB] || 133_Days-on_the_Sun_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.6 KB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2022-09-01T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "A Week Filled with Flares, August 2022",
            "description": "The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spotted 11 significant flares on the Sun from August 12-18, 2022.  Here's what that looked like at 171 angstroms, one of the wavelengths of light that SDO captures.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDOMusic: \"Rhombus\" from Geometric Shapes.  Written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Flare_Week_Still_1_print.jpg (1024x576) [359.4 KB] || Flare_Week_Still_1.jpg (3840x2160) [2.6 MB] || Flare_Week_Still_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.4 KB] || Flare_Week_Still_1_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || 14202_Flare_Week_August2022_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [359.6 MB] || 14202_Flare_Week_August2022_1080.webm (1920x1080) [25.0 MB] || 14202_Flare_Week_August2022_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [12.1 GB] || 14202_Flare_Week_August2022_4k_best.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.1 GB] || 14202_Flare_Week_August2022_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [453.5 MB] || 14202_Flare_Week_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.2 KB] || 14202_Flare_Week_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.2 KB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13778/",
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            "release_date": "2020-12-03T17:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Solar Activity Continues to Rise with 'Anemone' Eruption",
            "description": "Short video showing the solar flare and subsequent prominence eruption and \"arcade\" of loops.Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDOMusic: \"Beautiful Awesome\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Anemone_Eruption_131-171_Blend.jpg (1920x1080) [281.9 KB] || Anemone_Eruption_131-171_Blend_searchweb.png (180x320) [78.6 KB] || Anemone_Eruption_131-171_Blend_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || 13778_Anemone_Eruption_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.0 GB] || 13778_Anemone_Eruption_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [718.2 MB] || 13778_Anemone_Eruption_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [220.6 MB] || 13778_Anemone_Eruption_Best_1080.webm (1920x1080) [16.0 MB] || AnemoneEruption_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [500 bytes] || AnemoneEruption_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [513 bytes] || ",
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            "release_date": "2020-06-24T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "A Decade of Sun",
            "description": "This 10-year time lapse of the Sun at 17.1nm shows the rise and fall of the solar cycle and notable events, like transiting planets and solar eruptions. Music: \"Solar Observer\" written and produced for this video by Lars Leonhard.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDOWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || SDO_Year10_Poster_1080.png (1920x1080) [7.5 MB] || SDO_Year10_Poster_1080.jpg (1920x1080) [519.0 KB] || SDO_Year10_Poster_4k.jpg (3840x2160) [972.4 KB] || SDO_Year10_Poster_4k.png (3840x2160) [27.2 MB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_1080_15mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [6.5 GB] || SDO_Year_10_FINAL_720FB.mp4 (1280x720) [7.3 GB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_1080_15mbps.webm (1920x1080) [482.2 MB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_ProRes_3840x2160_24.mov (3840x2160) [191.6 GB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_4k_100mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [42.9 GB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_4k_20mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [8.7 GB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.7 KB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.8 KB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13524/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2020-02-11T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "SDO Celebrates its Tenth Launch Anniversary",
            "description": "Capturing an image in ten different wavelengths of light every 12 seconds, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO —  has provided an unprecedentedly clear picture of how massive explosions on the Sun grow and erupt ever since its launch on Feb. 11, 2010. The imagery is also captivating, allowing one to watch the constant ballet of solar material through the Sun's atmosphere, the corona. This year marks the tenth anniversary of SDO's launch and the start of its decade watching the Sun.Music: \"Encompass\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || PROMO_FINAL.00_01_04_08.Still001.jpg (1920x1080) [489.9 KB] || PROMO_FINAL.00_01_04_08.Still001_searchweb.png (320x180) [80.6 KB] || PROMO_FINAL.00_01_04_08.Still001_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || SDO_10th_Promo_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [981.6 MB] || SDO_10th_Promo_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [363.3 MB] || SDO_10th_Promo_Good_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [141.7 MB] || SDO_10th_Promo_Best_1080.webm (1920x1080) [10.2 MB] || SDO_10th_Promo_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [820 bytes] || SDO_10th_Promo_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [833 bytes] || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2017-06-02T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "SDO Anniversary Series",
            "description": "The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing through the sun's atmosphere, the corona.Year 1 || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2017-02-11T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "SDO: Year 7",
            "description": "The Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has now captured nearly seven years worth of ultra-high resolution solar footage.  This time lapse shows that full run from two of SDO's instruments.  The large orange sun is visible light captured by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, or HMI.  The smaller golden sun is extreme ultraviolet light from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, or AIA, and reveals some of the sun's atmosphere, the corona.  Both appear at one frame every 12 hours. SDO's nearly unbroken run is now long enough to watch the rise and fall of the current solar cycle.  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] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12144/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2016-02-12T09:00:00-05:00",
            "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.  The music is titled \"Tides\" and is from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || SDO_Year6_HCblend_HD.png (1920x1080) [5.3 MB] || SDO_Year6_HCblend_HD.jpg (1920x1080) [545.9 KB] || SDO_Year6_HCblend_HD_print.jpg (1024x576) [179.5 KB] || SDO_Year6_HCblend_UHD.png (3840x2160) [19.7 MB] || SDO_Year6_HCblend_UHD.jpg (3840x2160) [1.2 MB] || SDO_Year6_HCblend_HD_searchweb.png (180x320) [59.6 KB] || SDO_Year6_HCblend_HD_thm.png (80x40) [4.8 KB] || 12144_SDO_Year_6_appletv.webm (1280x720) [50.5 MB] || 12144_SDO_Year_6_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [241.9 MB] || 12144_SDO_Year_6_appletv_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [242.1 MB] || SDO_Year_6_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [6.3 KB] || SDO_Year_6_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [6.3 KB] || 12144_SDO_Year_6_H264_Good_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.4 GB] || 12144_SDO_Year_6_H264_Good_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [9.1 GB] || 12144_SDO_Year_6_H264_Good_3840x2160_5994.mov (3840x2160) [10.2 GB] || 12144_SDO_Year_6_ProRes_3840x2160_5994.mov (3840x2160) [50.3 GB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13057/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2015-11-01T09:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Thermonuclear Art: The Sun in UHD",
            "description": "The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on February 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing through the sun's atmosphere, the corona.SDO captures images of the sun in 10 different wavelengths, each of which helps highlight a different temperature of solar material. Different temperatures can, in turn, show specific structures on the sun such as solar flares, which are gigantic explosions of light and x-rays, or coronal loops, which are stream of solar material travelling up and down looping magnetic field lines.Scientists study these images to better understand the complex electromagnetic system causing the constant movement on the sun, which can ultimately have an effect closer to Earth, too. Flares and another type of solar explosion called coronal mass ejections can sometimes disrupt technology in space. Moreover, studying our closest star is one way of learning about other stars in the galaxy. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. built, operates, and manages the SDO spacecraft for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.All tracks are written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Credit: The SDO Team, Genna Duberstein and Scott Wiessinger, Producers || Combined.00_08_16_17.Still004.jpg (1920x1080) [922.9 KB] || Combined.00_29_05_33.Still002.jpg (1920x1080) [1.2 MB] || Combined.00_29_05_33.Still002_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.5 KB] || Combined.00_29_05_33.Still002_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || SDO_UHD_30mins.webmhd.webm (1080x606) [453.9 MB] || SDO_UHD_30mins_720p_YouTube.mp4 (1280x720) [3.4 GB] || SDO_UHD_30mins_YouTube.mp4 (3840x2160) [8.4 GB] || SDO_UHD_30mins-4K_5994_100Mbps.mov (3840x2160) [21.9 GB] || SDO_UHD_30mins.mov (3840x2160) [234.5 GB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2015-02-11T10:00:00-05:00",
            "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] || ",
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        {
            "id": 11460,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11460/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-02-11T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "SDO: Year 4",
            "description": "The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing through the sun's atmosphere, the corona. SDO's fourth year in orbit was no exception: NASA is releasing a movie of some of SDO's best sightings of the year, including massive solar explosions and giant sunspot shows. SDO captures images of the sun in 10 different wavelengths, each of which helps highlight a different temperature of solar material. Different temperatures can, in turn, show specific structures on the sun such as solar flares, which are giant explosions of light and x-rays, or coronal loops, which are streams of solar material traveling up and down looping magnetic field lines. The movie shows examples of both, as well as what's called prominence eruptions, when masses of solar material leap off the sun. The movie also shows a sunspot group on the solar surface. This sunspot, a magnetically strong and complex region appearing in mid-January 2014, was one of the largest in nine years. Scientists study these images to better understand the complex electromagnetic system causing the constant movement on the sun, which can ultimately have an effect closer to Earth, too: Flares and another type of solar explosion called coronal mass ejections can sometimes disrupt technology in space. Moreover, studying our closest star is one way of learning about other stars in the galaxy. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. built, operates, and manages the SDO spacecraft for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.SDO: Year One here.SDO: Year 2 here.SDO: Year 3 here.Information about the individual clips used in this video is here. || ",
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        {
            "id": 11379,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11379/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-10-24T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Filament Eruption Creates 'Canyon of Fire' on the Sun",
            "description": "A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular fashion. The 200,000 mile long filament ripped through the sun's atmosphere, the corona, leaving behind what looks like a canyon of fire. The glowing canyon traces the channel where magnetic fields held the filament aloft before the explosion. Visualizers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. combined two days of satellite data to create a short movie of this gigantic event on the sun.In reality, the sun is not made of fire, but of something called plasma: particles so hot that their electrons have boiled off, creating a charged gas that is interwoven with magnetic fields. These images were captured on Sept. 29-30, 2013, by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which constantly observes the sun in a variety of wavelengths. Different wavelengths help capture different aspect of events in the corona. The red images shown in the movie help highlight plasma at temperatures of 90,000° F and are good for observing filaments as they form and erupt. The yellow images, showing temperatures at 1,000,000° F, are useful for observing material coursing along the sun's magnetic field lines, seen in the movie as an arcade of loops across the area of the eruption. The browner images at the beginning of the movie show material at temperatures of 1,800,000° F, and it is here where the canyon of fire imagery is most obvious. By comparing this with the other colors, one sees that the two swirling ribbons moving farther away from each other are, in fact, the footprints of the giant magnetic field loops, which are growing and expanding as the filament pulls them upward. || ",
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        {
            "id": 11255,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11255/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-04-22T14:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Three Years of SDO Images",
            "description": "In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun's rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day. Each image is displayed for two frames at a 29.97 frame rate.SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The images shown here are based on a wavelength of 171 angstroms, which is in the extreme ultraviolet range and shows solar material at around 600,000 Kelvin. In this wavelength it is easy to see the sun's 25-day rotation as well as how solar activity has increased over three years.During the course of the video, the sun subtly increases and decreases in apparent size. This is because the distance between the SDO spacecraft and the sun varies over time. The image is, however, remarkably consistent and stable despite the fact that SDO orbits the Earth at 6,876 miles per hour and the Earth orbits the sun at 67,062 miles per hour.Such stability is crucial for scientists, who use SDO to learn more about our closest star. These images have regularly caught solar flares and coronal mass ejections in the act, types of space weather that can send radiation and solar material toward Earth and interfere with satellites in space. SDO's glimpses into the violent dance on the sun help scientists understand what causes these giant explosions — with the hopes of some day improving our ability to predict this space weather.The four wavelength view at the end of the video shows light at 4500 angstroms, which is basically the visible light view of the sun, and reveals sunspots; light at 193 angstroms which highlights material at 1 million Kelvin and reveals more of the sun's corona; light at 304 angstroms which highlights material at around 50,000 Kelvin and shows features in the transition region and chromosphere of the sun; and light at 171 angstroms.Noteworthy events that appear briefly in the main sequence of this video:00:30;24 Partial eclipse by the moon00:31;16 Roll maneuver01:11;02 August 9, 2011 X6.9 Flare, currently the largest of this solar cycle01:28;07 Comet Lovejoy, December 15, 201101:42;29 Roll Maneuver01:51;07 Transit of Venus, June 5, 201202:28;13 Partial eclipse by the moonWatch this video on YouTube. || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-02-20T10:00:00-05:00",
            "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. || ",
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        {
            "id": 11203,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11203/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-02-11T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "SDO: Year 3",
            "description": "On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched an unprecedented solar observatory into space. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) flew up on an Atlas V rocket, carrying instruments that scientists hoped would revolutionize observations of the sun. If all went according to plan, SDO would provide incredibly high-resolution data of the entire solar disk almost as quickly as once a second. When the science team released its first images in April of 2010, SDO's data exceeded everyone's hopes and expectations, providing stunningly detailed views of the sun. In the three years since then, SDO's images have continued to show breathtaking pictures and movies of eruptive events on the sun. Such imagery is more than just pretty, they are the very data that scientists study. By highlighting different wavelengths of light, scientists can track how material on the sun moves. Such movement, in turn, holds clues as to what causes these giant explosions, which, when Earth-directed, can disrupt technology in space. SDO is the first mission in a NASA's Living With a Star program, the goal of which is to develop the scientific understanding necessary to address those aspects of the sun-Earth system that directly affect our lives and society. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. built, operates, and manages the SDO spacecraft for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.SDO: Year One here.SDO: Year 2 here.Information about the individual clips used in this video is here.Watch this video on YouTube. || ",
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            "id": 11180,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11180/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-01-31T13:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "SDO Provides First Sightings of How<br>a CME Forms",
            "description": "On July 18, 2012, a fairly small explosion of light burst off the lower right limb of the sun. Such flares often come with an associated eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME — but this one did not. Something interesting did happen, however. Magnetic field lines in this area of the sun's atmosphere, the corona, began to twist and kink, generating the hottest solar material — a charged gas called plasma — to trace out the newly-formed slinky shape. The plasma glowed brightly in extreme ultraviolet images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and scientists were able to watch for the first time the very formation of something they had long theorized was at the heart of many eruptive events on the sun: a flux rope. Eight hours later, on July 19, the same region flared again. This time the flux rope's connection to the sun was severed, and the magnetic fields escaped into space, dragging billions of tons of solar material along for the ride — a classic CME. More than just gorgeous to see, such direct observation offers one case study on how this crucial kernel at the heart of a CME forms. Such flux ropes have been seen in images of CMEs as they fly away from the sun, but it's never been known — indeed, has been strongly debated — whether the flux rope formed before or in conjunction with a CME's launch. This case shows a clear-cut example of the flux rope forming ahead of time.Watch this video on YouTube. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11158/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-12-04T15:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Sun Grazing Comets as Solar Probes",
            "description": "To observe how winds move high in Earth's atmosphere, scientists sometimes release clouds of barium as tracers to track how the material corkscrews and sweeps around — but scientists have no similar technique to study the turbulent atmosphere of the sun. So researchers were excited in December 2011, when Comet Lovejoy swept right through the sun's corona with its long tail streaming behind it. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured images of the comet, showing how its long tail was buffeted by systems around the sun, offering scientists a unique way of observing movement as if they'd orchestrated the experiment themselves. Since comet tails have ionized gases, they are also affected by the sun's magnetic field, and can act as tracers of the complex magnetic system higher up in the atmosphere. Comets can also aid in the study of coronal mass ejections and the solar wind.Watch this video on YouTube. || ",
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        },
        {
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11046/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-07-19T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Van Gogh Sun",
            "description": "A crucial, and often underappreciated, facet of science lies in deciding how to turn the raw numbers of data into useful, understandable information — often through graphs and images. Such visualization techniques are needed for everything from making a map of planetary orbits based on nightly measurements of where they are in the sky to colorizing normally invisible light such as X-rays to produce \"images\" of the sun.More information, of course, requires more complex visualizations and occasionally such images are not just informative, but beautiful too.Such is the case with a new technique created by Nicholeen Viall, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. She creates images of the sun reminiscent of Van Gogh, with broad strokes of bright color splashed across a yellow background. But it's science, not art. The color of each pixel contains a wealth of information about the 12-hour history of cooling and heating at that particular spot on the sun. That heat history holds clues to the mechanisms that drive the temperature and movements of the sun's atmosphere, or corona.To look at the corona from a fresh perspective, Viall created a new kind of picture, making use of the high resolution provided by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) provides images of the sun in 10 different wavelengths, each approximately corresponding to a single temperature of material. Therefore, when one looks at the wavelength of 171 angstroms, for example, one sees all the material in the sun's atmosphere that is a million degrees Kelvin. By looking at an area of the sun in different wavelengths, one can get a sense of how different swaths of material change temperature. If an area seems bright in a wavelength that shows a hotter temperature an hour before it becomes bright in a wavelength that shows a cooler temperature, one can gather information about how that region has changed over time.Viall's images show a wealth of reds, oranges, and yellow, meaning that over a 12-hour period the material appear to be cooling. Obviously there must have been heating in the process as well, since the corona isn't on a one-way temperature slide down to zero degrees. Any kind of steady heating throughout the corona would have shown up in Viall's images, so she concludes that the heating must be quick and impulsive — so fast that it doesn't show up in her images. This lends credence to those theories that say numerous nanobursts of energy help heat the corona. || ",
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        {
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10745/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2011-06-07T09:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "SDO Catches Surf Waves on the Sun",
            "description": "Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. This makes for more than just a nice photo-op: the waves hold clues as to how energy moves through that atmosphere, known as the corona. Since scientists know how these kinds of waves — initiated by a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability if you're being technical — disperse energy in the water, they can use this information to better understand the corona. This in turn, may help solve an enduring mystery of why the corona is thousands of times hotter than originally expected.Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities occur when two fluids of different densities or different speeds flow by each other. In the case of ocean waves, that's the dense water and the lighter air. As they flow past each other, slight ripples can be quickly amplified into the giant waves loved by surfers. In the case of the solar atmosphere, which is made of a very hot and electrically charged gas called plasma, the two flows come from an expanse of plasma erupting off the sun's surface as it passes by plasma that is not erupting. The difference in flow speeds and densities across this boundary sparks the instability that builds into the waves. In order to confirm this description, the team developed a computer model to see what takes place in the region. Their model showed that these conditions could indeed lead to giant surfing waves rolling through the corona. Seeing the big waves suggests they can cascade down to smaller forms of turbulence too. Scientists believe that the friction created by turbulence — the simple rolling of material over and around itself — could help add heating energy to the corona. The analogy is the way froth at the top of a surfing wave provides friction that will heat up the wave. || ",
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        {
            "id": 10733,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10733/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2011-03-03T16:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "SDO First Light Media",
            "description": "A compilation of some of the videos and stills used during the SDO First Light press conference.There are more video and stills available. || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2010-05-18T09:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "SDO: Commissioning and Handover",
            "description": "In order to provide the clearest scientific data for its entire 5 year mission, SDO had to undergo a rigorous, 2 month testing phase. After giving it an all-clear, the team of people who designed, built and tested the satellite now have to say goodbye as they hand it over to the scientists who will begin collecting data. || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-09-04T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "SDO Engineers Create What Never Was",
            "description": "Scientists discover what there is, but engineers create that which never was. This special group of folks at Goddard Space Flight Center are creators, like any artist, but instead of working with art they are working wiht scientific, mechanical, or electrical things with fantastic problems to solve.  Watch engineers talk about what it is like to be an engineer as they build, assemble, integrate, and test the Solary Dynamics Observatory (SDO) soon to be launched in early 2010. If you have a strong tendancy towards science and mathematics, and enjoy working and building things with your hands, then you could also come up with creative solutions, to create something, to do a certain job and do it well. || ",
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        {
            "id": 10476,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10476/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-08-07T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "G2009-080 SDO Moves Out",
            "description": "NASA's Solar Dyamics Obervatory (SDO) will study the sun in unrecedented detail and its effects on Earth. See SDO rolled through Goddard Space Flight Center's hallways, where it was built and tested, and prepared for transport to KSC in July 2009. SDO will undergo final testing at Astrotech Space Operations, located near Kennedy Space Center, in preparation for its anticipated launch. || ",
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            "id": 10441,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10441/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-07-02T15:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "SDO's Science",
            "description": "These animations and web shorts explain how SDO's instruments will look at the sun and allow us to better predict how the sun will affect us in the future. || ",
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        {
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2008-03-02T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "NASA's SDO Mission",
            "description": "A new NASA spacecraft called the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will deliver startling images of the sun with ten times more detail than HDTV. The goal of the mission is to help scientists zoom in on solar activity such as sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, thus improving forcasts of solar storms. The complete script is available. For more information on the Solar Dynamics Observatory, check out their web site at http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov. || ",
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