Solar Prominence from SDO: July 1, 2013
A large solar prominence, caught in a tug-of-war between solar gravity pulling it downward and magnetic gradients lifting upward, hovers over the limb of the Sun (left) before eventually launching into space.
A large solar prominence (left limb of the Sun) hovers for hours before launching into space.
Full resolution 4Kx4K frames. A large solar prominence (left limb of the Sun) hovers for hours before launching into space.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (USRA)
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Scientist
- None None (SDO Science Team and the Virtual Solar Observatory)
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Project support
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, February 11, 2014.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:04 AM EST.
Missions
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AIA 304 (304 Filter) [SDO: AIA]
ID: 677This dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
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