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2009 Sept 08



QS Dark Structure (click on image to see movie)
This short moive shows the formation and movement of two dark features highlighted by a QS dynamic brightening. The features must either be very low density plasma (voids) or very cool high density plasma (T < 1MK). The flow of bright material around the dark structure suggests that it is magnetic in origen. The image has been resized to 768x768 pixels from the original 384x384 FOV. The color table saturates the XBP in the center of the FOV to allow better contrast in the QS.

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(Prepared by Ed DeLuca)

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