
Issue of
May 27, 1998
 

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The circular pattern
moving outward from the center of this movie is made by
seismic waves that were generated by the July 9, 1996
solar flare. This image was taken by the Michelson
Doppler Imager on board the Solar and Heliospheric
Observer spacecraft. The solar seismic waves were nearly
two miles high and extended about 10 Earth-diameters
(120,000 kilometers) before disappearing. The flare is the white, feather-shaped object
extending outward from the center of the ripple pattern.
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