The Rising Solar Cycle: X5.4 Flare ('W' sunspot group) seen by SDO
Sunspot group 1429 of solar cycle 24 has launched an X5.4 flare can coronal mass ejection (CME) that is forecast to impact the Earth
This visualization has the full 4Kx4K frames from the 17.1 nm and 13.1 nm filters on the Solar Dynamics Observatory. 2Kx2K MPEG-4 movies are also available.
The solar flare in the 171A (17.1nm) filter
The solar flare in the 131angstrom (13.1nm) filter.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producers
- Scott Wiessinger (USRA)
- Genna Duberstein (USRA)
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Writer
- Karen Fox (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, March 7, 2012.
This page was last updated on Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 12:02 AM EDT.
Missions
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AIA 171 (171 Filter) [SDO: AIA]
ID: 680This dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
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AIA 131 (131 Filter) [SDO: AIA]
ID: 730This dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
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