Sun  ID: 10748

SDO: Year One

April 21, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference, where NASA revealed the first images taken by the spacecraft.

In the last year, the sun has gone from its quietest period in years to the activity marking the beginning of solar cycle 24. SDO has captured every moment with a level of detail never-before possible. The mission has returned unprecedented images of solar flares, eruptions of prominences, and the early stages of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). In this video are some of the most beautiful, interesting, and mesmerizing events seen by SDO during its first year.

In the order they appear in the video the events are:

1. Prominence Eruption from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on March 30, 2010

2. Cusp Flow from AIA in 171 Ångstroms on February 14, 2011

3. Prominence Eruption from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on February 25, 2011

4. Cusp Flow from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on February 14, 2011

5. Merging Sunspots from HMI in Continuum on October 24-28, 2010

6. Prominence Eruption and active region from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on April 30, 2010

7. Solar activity and plasma loops from AIA in 171 Ångstroms on March 4-8, 2011

8. Flowing plasma from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on April 19, 2010

9. Active regions from HMI in Magnetogram on March 10, 2011

10. Filament eruption from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on December 6, 2010

11. CME start from AIA in 211 Ångstroms on March 8, 2011

12. X2 flare from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on February 15, 2011

 

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Credits

Scott Wiessinger (UMBC): Video Editor
Scott Wiessinger (UMBC): Producer
Barbara Thompson (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Barbara Thompson (NASA/GSFC): Writer
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO

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Mission:
SDO

Data Used:
SDO/HMI/Continuum also referred to as: SDO Continuum
SDO/HMI/Magnetogram also referred to as: SDO Magnetogram
Data Compilation
SDO/AIA/304 Filter also referred to as: AIA 304
JOINT SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER
SDO/AIA/211 Filter also referred to as: AIA 211
JOINT SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER
SDO/AIA/171 Filter also referred to as: AIA 171
JOINT SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER
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This item is part of this series:
Narrated Movies

Goddard TV Tape:
G2011-039 -- SDO-Year One

Keywords:
SVS >> First Light
SVS >> HDTV
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Flares
SVS >> SDO
SVS >> Edited Feature
SVS >> Solar Dynamics Observatory
SVS >> Heliophysics
NASA Science >> Sun
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Coronal Mass Ejections
SVS >> Visible Light Imaging
SVS >> Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging
SVS >> EUV Imaging

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0