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Magnetic Carpet Movie

Target Name:  Sun
Spacecraft:  SOHO
Produced by:  Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Copyright: Public Domain
Date Released: November 5, 1997

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The complex distribution and mixing of magnetic polarities (here displayed as black and white) form a "magnetic carpet" over the entire Sun. The magnetic loops, connecting regions of opposing magnetic polarity, rise far into the solar corona, forming extensive loop structures. While the bright active regions have long been known to be sources of heating, the diffuse heating appears to be associated with the ubiquitous magnetic carpet. The relationship between the structure of the magnetic carpet and the heating of the solar corona was discovered by comparing images of the Sun taken simultaneously by the MDI and EIT instruments on SOHO.

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