January 2012 - Arcade of Coronal Loops from SDO

An arcade of coronal loops forms and erupts - upper right quadrant of disk.

Movie of the formation and eruption of an arcade of coronal loops.

4Kx4K color-coded frames of SDO/AIA 17.1nm imagery.

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, the SDO Science Team, and the Virtual Solar Observatory.

Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Producer
- Genna Duberstein (USRA)
Project support
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Scientist
- William D. Pesnell (NASA/GSFC)

This page was originally published on Friday, March 14, 2014.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM EDT.

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