Previous Animation Next Animation Sun vs. Mission to Mars Spacecraft (green trajectory) on their way from the Earth (blue orbit) to Mars (red orbit) risk being hit by energetic events from the Sun, such as X-rays, energetic protons (blue streaks), and material from Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) (red blobs). The spiral lines from the Sun represent the magnetic field lines 'frozen' into the solar wind.    Movie of spacecraft on an Earth-to-Mars trajectory. Duration: 30.0 seconds Available formats:   720x486 (30 fps) Frames   1280x720 (30 fps) Frames   640x480 (30 fps) MPEG-1   16 MB   720x480 (29.97 fps) MPEG-2   25 MB   512x288 (30 fps) MPEG-1   4 MB   1280x720 (29.97 fps) MPEG-2   65 MB   320x240 (30 fps) MPEG-1   4 MB   80x40         PNG           3 KB   320x240     JPEG         6 KB   320x240     JPEG         6 KB   320x240 (30 fps) X-FLV       879 KB How to play our movies Animation Number: 2924 Completed: 2004-03-19 Animators: Tom Bridgman (GST) (Lead)   Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) Scientist: Dan Spicer (NASA/GSFC) Keywords: SVS >> Coronal Mass Ejection SVS >> Earth SVS >> HDTV SVS >> Mars DLESE >> Space science SVS >> Sun SVS >> X-ray     Please give credit for this item to: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Back to Top

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