Halloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/MDI Continuum

  • Released Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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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 Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI) records images at several very narrow wavelength bands in the visible light. These images are often used as proxies for white-light solar images.

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

For more information, visit the SOHO project page.

This movie displays nearly two weeks of MDI continuum data from around Halloween 2003.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Wednesday, April 2, 2008.
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