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Sun's Magnetic Carpet


Date: 13 November 1997
Satellite: SOHO
Depicts: Solar Magnetic Field
Copyright: Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research, Palo Alto, CA and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

This image is a model of magnetic fields at the surface of the Sun developed using data from several instruments on board the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. The data were taken on 19 October 1996. The green and white plane in the foreground is from the solar corona from the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) instrument.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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