Sun  ID: 3897

Growing Sunspots - A Full Disk View: February 2011

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on January 27, 2012
Here is a leisurely view of SDO/HMI data, sampled every hour, covering two weeks in the middle of February 2011. While the solar disk starts out featureless, eventually small groups of sunspots (the darker regions) emerge, grow, and then rotate out of view.

For a closeup view of of one of these sunspot groups, see animation 3898, Growing Sunspots - Tracking Closeup: February 2011

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This movie plays a two-week long view of the Sun, sampled every hour.
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These are the full-resolution 4Kx4K imagery from SDO/HMI with a black-body color table applied.

Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Producer
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
SDO

Data Used:
SDO/HMI/Continuum also referred to as: SDO Continuum
2011-02-06 to 2011-02-21
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Keywords:
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Sunspots
SVS >> Hyperwall
SVS >> SDO
SVS >> Solar Dynamics Observatory
SVS >> Heliophysics
NASA Science >> Sun
SVS >> Visible Light 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