TRACE

The Transition Region. and Coronal. Explorer. Launched in April 1998, this satellite is providing some of the best images of the Sun's outer atmosphere ever seen.

All movies have been created using TRACE data.

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See a solar flare as never before! (4.0 Mb, QuickTime)

Plasma streams in the solar atmosphere (0.7 Mb, QuickTime)

Small explosions on the sun. (2.3 Mb, QuickTime)

Bright magnetic arches. (1.5 Mb, QuickTime)

The life and death of a Firefly. (3.6 Mb, QuickTime)

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