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A Multi-Mission View of the AR9906 Solar Flare with Alternate Instrument Labels

Here's a view of the Sun, from the point of view of a fleet of Sun-observing spacecraft - SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI. The time scales of the data samples in this visualization range from 6 hours to as short as 12 seconds and the display rate varies throughout the movie. The region and event of interest is the solar flare over solar active region AR9906 on April 21, 2002. In this visualization, black corresponds to no (current) instrument coverage (there used to be a LASCO C1 camera inside the ring of LASCO C2, but that instrument didn't recover after SOHO was temporarily 'lost' in 1998).

This movie starts with a wide-angle view of the Sun and presents different datasets from SOHO, TRACE and RHESSI centered on a flare and CME.    This movie starts with a wide-angle view of the Sun and presents different datasets from SOHO, TRACE and RHESSI centered on a flare and CME.
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Opening View of the Sun    Opening View of the Sun

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Opening view of SOHO-MDI data    Opening view of SOHO-MDI data

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SOHO-LASCO C3 data    SOHO-LASCO C3 data

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SOHO-LASCO C2 data    SOHO-LASCO C2 data

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SOHO-EIT    SOHO-EIT

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TRACE and one RHESSI channel    TRACE and one RHESSI channel

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TRACE and two RHESSI channels    TRACE and two RHESSI channels

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The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C2 field of view.    The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C2 field of view.

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The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C3 field of view just before bursting    The expanding bubble of hot plasma expands into SOHO-LASCO C3 field of view just before bursting

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Slate title from video tape reads, 'A Multi-Mission View of the AR9906 Solar Flare with Alternate Instrument Labels.  Here's a view of the Sun, from the point of view of a fleet of Sun-observing spacecraft - SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI.  The time scales of the data samples in this visualization range from six hours to as short as 12 seconds and the display rate varies throughout the movie.  The region and even of interest is the solar flare over solar active region AR9906 on April 21, 2002.  In this visualization, black corresponds to no (current) insturment coverage (there used to be a LASCO C1 camera inside the ring of LASCO C2, but that instrument did not recover after SOHO was temporarily lost in 1998).'    Slate title from video tape reads, 'A Multi-Mission View of the AR9906 Solar Flare with Alternate Instrument Labels. Here's a view of the Sun, from the point of view of a fleet of Sun-observing spacecraft - SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI. The time scales of the data samples in this visualization range from six hours to as short as 12 seconds and the display rate varies throughout the movie. The region and even of interest is the solar flare over solar active region AR9906 on April 21, 2002. In this visualization, black corresponds to no (current) insturment coverage (there used to be a LASCO C1 camera inside the ring of LASCO C2, but that instrument did not recover after SOHO was temporarily lost in 1998).'

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Animation Number:2553
Completed:2002-08-29
Animator:Tom Bridgman (GST) (Lead)
Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets:RHESSI/X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (2002/04/21T00:42:52-2002/04/21T01:32:18)
 SOHO/Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO)/C2 (2002/04/18T00:06:05-2002/04/23T23:51:10)
 SOHO/Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO)/C3 (2002/04/18T00:18:05-2002/04/23T23:42:05)
 SOHO/Extreme-UV Imaging Telescope (EIT)/195 Angstroms (2002/04/20T00:00:10-2002/04/21T23:52:09)
 SOHO/Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI)/Continuum (2002/04/10T23:59:31-2002/04/21T17:35:31)
 TRACE/195 Angstroms (2002/04/21T00:10:59-2002/04/21T07:58:34)
Series:Multi-Mission Solar Movie
Video:SVS2002-0017 *
Keywords:
SVS >> Active Region 9906
SVS >> CME
SVS >> Coronal Mass Ejection
SVS >> Solar Active Region
DLESE >> Space science
SVS >> Sun
SVS >> X-ray
GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Flares
 
 
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. A special thanks to all those who contributed data and advice without which this product would not have been possible (in no particular order): Alexander Kosovichev (Stanford University), Todd Hoeksema (Stanford University), Steele Hill (L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation/GSFC), Brian R. Dennis (NASA/GSFC), Peter T. Gallagher (L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation/GSFC), Joseph B. Gurman (NASA/GSFC), Nathan Rich (Interferometrics Inc./NRL), Bernhard Fleck (NASA/GSFC), Craig DeForest (SwRI), Philip Scherrer (Stanford University)


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