July 12, 2011: A Bright Limb Prominence from Solar Dynamics Observatory
HD movie of solar prominence launch in the AIA 304 angstrom filter (upper left limb of Sun).
A large prominence launches, then hovers briefly, on the solar limb (upper left). The lofted solar plasma is seen traveling back down along the magnetic field. This view is through the AIA 304 Ångstrom filter.
Full resolution 4Kx4K image sequence of solar prominence launch in the AIA 304 angstrom filter (upper left limb of Sun).
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, the SDO Science Team, and the Virtual Solar Observatory.
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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
- William D. Pesnell (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, March 3, 2015.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:49 PM EDT.
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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