Halloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/MDI Magnetograms

  • Released Wednesday, April 2, 2008
View full credits

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) takes images of the Sun at five very narrow wavelength bands and four different polarizations in visible light. For this sequence, the images are processed in a form that reveals the magnetic field strength on the solar photosphere. Other combinations of the images act as white-light images and dopplergrams (which measure the velocity of the solar 'surface').

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 magnetogram data from around Halloween 2003.

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Wednesday, April 2, 2008.
This page was last updated on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 10:01 PM EST.

Missions

This visualization is related to the following missions:

Series

This visualization can be found in the following series:

Datasets used in this visualization

Note: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.