Skip to main content

Solar Facts Infographic / Datos Solares Infografía

Infographic image for Solar Facs; 10,000 degrees = The Sun's surface temperature 865,000 kilometers = The Diameter of the Sun 25th Cycle = The solar cycle we are currently in 11 years = Average length of one solar cycle 2025 = The year NOAA's SWFO-L1 is expected to launch 8 minutes = How long it takes light from the Sun to reach Earth 1800 miles per second = The speed that some Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can travel 2015 = The year NOAA's DSCOVR satellite launched ~1,000,000 miles = How far NOAA's DSCOVR

Transcript 

Solar Facts by the Numbers

10,000 degrees = The Sun's surface temperature
865,000 miles = The Diameter of the Sun
25th Cycle = The solar cycle we are currently in
11 years = Average length of one solar cycle
2025 = The year NOAA's SWFO-L1 is expected to launch
8 minutes = How long it takes light from the Sun to reach Earth
1800 miles per second = The speed that some Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can travel
2015 = The year NOAA's DSCOVR satellite launched
~1,000,000 miles = How far NOAA's DSCOVR satellite orbits away from Earth
400 years = That's how long humans have studied sunspots with telescopes
1961 = The year NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center was founded

 

Transcripción

Datos Solares en Numeros

5.500 degrees Celcius = La temperatura de la superficie del Sol
1.39 millones de kilometre = El diametro del Sol
25 cilco = El ciclo solar en el que nos encontramos actualmente
11 anos = La duracion promedio de un ciclo solar
2025 = El ano el que espera lanzar al espacio el satelite SWFO-L1 de la NOAA
8 minutos = El tiempo que tarda la luz del Sol en llegar a la Tierra
3.000 kilometros por segundo = La velocidad a la que pueden viajar las eyecciones mas rapidas de masa coronal (conocidas como CME por sus siglas en ingles)
2015 = El ano en el que se lanzo al espacio el satelite DSCOVR de la NOAA
~1.500.000 kilometros = La distancia de la Tierra a la que el satelite DSCOVR orbita
400 anos = El tiempo que llevan los seres humanos observando las manchas solares con telescopios
1961 = El ano en el que inauguraron el Centro de Prediccion del Clima Espacial de la NOAA / NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center