Sun  ID: 4061

Solar Close-ups with Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on April 16, 2013
A collection of movies generated from the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) of the JAXA/NASA Hinode mission.
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A view of the limb of the Sun, in the H-line of singly-ionized calcium. A sunspot is visible as are many spicules (the grass-like wavy things).
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A flare erupts in the over a sunspot on December 13, 2006. This movie uses the filter for the G-band in visible light. This flare is also examined in the feature on Space Weather Modeling.
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A flare erupts in the over a sunspot on December 13, 2006. This movie uses the filter for the H-line of ionized calcium. This flare is also examined in the feature on Space Weather Modeling.
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A closeup on solar convection cells with a small sunspot forming (on the right).
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Close-up view of a sunspot in the G-Band from January 5, 2007.
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A magnetogram of the solar photosphere illustrating the high variability of the solar magnetic field. White is positive (north) polarity and black is negative (south) polarity.
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Hinode observes Venus as it passes between Earth and the Sun on June 5, 2012.
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A sunspot on the limb of the Sun, in the light of the H-line of singly-ionized calcium.
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A sunspot on the limb of the Sun, in the light of the H-line of singly-ionized calcium. The region brightens during a solar flare.
 

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Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Karen Fox (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Producer
Dawn C. Myers (ADNET): Scientist
Dawn C. Myers (ADNET): Project Support
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Hinode (Solar-b)

Data Used:
Hinode (Solar-B)/Solar Optical Telescope (SOT)
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Keywords:
SVS >> Convection
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Flares
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Sunspots
SVS >> Hyperwall
SVS >> Hinode
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