April 2012 Solar Flare & Eruption
- Visualizations by:
- Tom Bridgman
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A large eruption occurs on the limb of the Sun (left upper quadrant) around time-stamp 17:33 hours. For the next several hours, material can be see falling back down to the solar surface.
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 (GST) [Lead]
Scientist
- William D. Pesnell (NASA/GSFC)
Project support
- Ian Jones (ADNET)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
SDO AIA 171 (A.K.A. 171 Filter) (Collected with the AIA sensor)
JOINT SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER
Dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
See more visualizations using this data setSDO AIA 304 (A.K.A. 304 Filter) (Collected with the AIA sensor)
JOINT SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER
Dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
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