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The Solar Cycle As Seen From Space

Levels
  • Advanced (9-12+)
  • Intermediate (6-8)
  • Introductory (K-5)
Material Type
  • Film/Documentary/Show
Heliophysics Big Ideas
  • Big Idea 3.3 - Our Sun, like all stars, has a life cycle.
  • Big Idea 3.1 – The Sun is made of churning plasma…
NGSS
  • ESS1 - Earth's Place in the Universe
Heliophysics Topics
  • Solar Cycle
  • Space Weather
  • Coronal Mass Ejection
  • Solar Flare
  • Sunspot
Heliophysics Missions
  • Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
Material Cost per Learner Free
Language English

Roughly 2-minute video which uses views of the Sun taken by a variety of spacecraft to show how different features of the Sun vary between solar minimum and solar maximum.