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Spaceborne Instruments Reveal Secrets of Solar Flares

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 20, 2010 — Spaceborne solar instruments designed and built by Lockheed Martin have provided the data needed to uncover the physical mechanism behind so-called "sympathetic flares" on the Sun. For over 75 years, solar physicists have been observing near-synchronous explosions in the solar atmosphere, and have wondered whether they were somehow related, but hard evidence for connection has been elusive. On Aug. 1, 2010, nearly the entire Earth-facing side of the Sun erupted in a tumult of activity, comprising a large solar flare, a solar tsunami, multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the solar...Read full article

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    Published: December 2010
    AmericasCaliforniacoronal mass ejectionsdefenseDr. Alan TitleDr. Carolus SchrijverenergyHelioseismic and Magnetic ImagerImagingLight SourcesLockheed MartinNASAradio burstsResearch & TechnologySDO Atmospheric Imaging AssemblySolar Dynamics Observatorysolar flaressolar physicistsSolar Terrestrial Relations Observatorysolar tsunamispaceborne solar instrumentssympathetic flaresthe sun

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