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Solar Moss With Yohkoh Overlay

Target Name:  Sun
Spacecraft:  TRACE
Produced by:  NASA/GSFC
Copyright: Public Domain
Date Taken:  30 May 1998
Date Released: 14 December 1999

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The same image as "moss7" but with the co-temporal Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope image overlaid. Note that the patches of moss seen in the previous images (See Trace Spacecraft Discovers Moss on the Sun) occur only beneath areas of high intensity soft x-ray emission as imaged by the SXT instrument.

AR 8227 30-May-1998 14:41:01 UT,
N20 E04 TRACE 171 Angstrom filter. 27.6 sec exposure.
SXT Al/Mg filter image taken at 14:40:34 UT.

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