See the black and white versions of the movies to investigate finer details of the phenomena. The movies require at least Quicktime 3.5. The L-1011 airplane carrying the rocket took off from Edwards Air Force Base and dropped the rocket over the Pacific Ocean. This sequence of ultraviolet images shows dynamic loops at the solar limb. This sequence of ultraviolet images shows a flare at the solar limb in a chromospheric line of hydrogen.
Hot plasma fills the loops and then falls back down th loops to the limb.
This sequence of extreme ultraviolet images shows brightening and expansion of coronal loops accompanied by a violent ejection of material away from the Sun's surface. A bubble of hot, ionized gas or plasma as well as cooler, dark filamentary material, erupts from the solar corona and travels through space at a high speed. The cross-shaped pattern at the peak of the loop brightening is an artifact of the instrument response rather than a feature on the Sun. The dark region at the center of the activity is a sunspot . This sequence of extreme ultraviolet images shows several concentrations of dark filamentary material dancing along the solar limb, against a background of brightening coronal loops.