| NASA Center: |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
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| Image # : |
091 |
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| Date : |
02/11/1996
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Title
Series of Images from SOHO
Full Description
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint project
of the European Space Agency and NASA, took this sequence of
images with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, one of
the observatory's 12 instruments. Easily visible on the lower
left side is an "eruptive prominence" or blob of 60,000 F
(33,315 C) gas measuring more than 80,000 miles (128,747 km)
long. When the observatory took the image on February 11, 1996,
the blob was traveling at more than 15,000 mph (24,140 kph).
Eruptions such as these occur when a significant amount of cool
dense plasma or ionized gas escapes from the low-level magnetic
fields in the Sun's atmosphere. When they occur, they sometimes
disrupt power and communications. With SOHO, scientists hope to
observe these events more often and perhaps get a better idea of
how they occur. SOHO observed these events during the minimum
phase of the Sun's 11-year activity cycle.
Keywords
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory SOHO European Space Agency ESA Sun Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
Subject Category
Sun,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
GSFC
- Center Number:
091
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2002-000120
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
| Resolution | Format | Width
(Pixels) | Height
(Pixels) | Size
(KBytes) |
Thumbnail |
JPEG |
54 |
27 |
5 |
Small |
JPEG |
384 |
192 |
79 |
Medium |
JPEG |
900 |
450 |
364 |
Large |
JPEG |
1 |
900 |
949 |
Publication Information
Please note that the image number assigned to this image is
not
an official NASA number. It is for GRIN database purposes
only.
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