Sun  ID: 3683

Halloween 2003 Solar Storms: GOES/SXI X-ray view

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on April 2, 2010

Here is a view of the full solar disk during a two-week period in October and November of 2003 which exhibited some of the largest solar activity events since the advent of space-based solar observing.

The GOES-12/Solar X-Ray Imager was experiencing significant problems during this time period and was offline during part of the opening and closing portions of this movie, which is why there is a significant number of black frames. Actual data collection began on October 28, 2003 and terminated on November 5, 2003.

This movie is part of a series of movies with matching cadence designed to play synchronously with each other. The other movies in this series are

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This movie plays a sequence of images collected in X-rays from the GOES-12 Soft X-ray Imager. A number of black frames are due to significant data gaps created while the instrument was offline.

Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC): Producer
William D. Pesnell (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
GOES-M

Data Used:
GOES-12/SXI
NOAA - 2003-10-28T00:00:11Z to 2003-11-05T23:48:35Z
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This item is part of these series:
SDO Pre-launch
Halloween Solar Storms 2003: A Multi-Mission View
The Sun

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Solar Rotation
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Active Regions
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Events
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Flares
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar X-rays
SVS >> GOES
SVS >> For Educators
SVS >> Sunspot Cycle
NASA Science >> Sun

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