SDO Solar Data

Part 1:

Part 2: Videos, 1-6

Part 2: Watch these videos throughout the next 6 parts of the activity .

Your students will look at intriguing video collections of data from the instruments aboard SDO and answer questions about what they observe:

1. Part Video 1 - A compilation of data from the 1st year of SDO operation.

These will show a sampling of the forms taken by solar activity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_MKL_fjDLo&feature=youtu.be

additional links (in order):

• http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
• http://www.thesuntoday.org/current-observations/magnetic-field-lines-galore-sdo-pick-of-the-week/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory
• http://aia.lmsal.com/public/instrument.htm

2. Video 2 – Active regions

Students observe an active region in three different wavelengths of light side by side. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVDsQkuRt-c&feature=youtu.be

3. Video 3 - One solar rotation worth of images in white (i.e. visible) light, showing sunspots as they move with the rotation of the Sun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oInoNnPsxcA&feature=youtu.be

4. Video 4 - Data from a portion of the same dates as video 3 with the active regions labeled.

Students focus on one in particular, where they observe details of the changes of active region. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnwqkm6rL4M&feature=youtu.be

5. Video 5 - Shows one particular flare seen by SDO in different wavelengths of light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MWL_gQVWQk&feature=youtu.be

also:

http://spaceweather.com/glossary/flareclasses.html

6. Video 6 – A video of a solar flare as observed by SDO and NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ3MuftUbMc&feature=youtu.be

Part 3: Access to Live Data

links:

http://www.lmsal.com/isolsearch

www.helioviewer.org

Helioviewer goes further: http://jhelioviewer.org/