{"id":240214,"date":"2023-11-02T20:08:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T20:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=240214"},"modified":"2023-11-02T20:08:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T20:08:03","slug":"nasa-captures-canyon-of-fire-on-sun-twice-the-size-of-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/nasa-captures-canyon-of-fire-on-sun-twice-the-size-of-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA captures &apos;canyon of fire&apos; on sun twice the size of the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>NASA releases footage of 600,000-mile-long &#8216;canyon of fire&#8217; shooting out from the sun on Halloween<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>An explosion of radiation coming from the sun was captured by NASA&#8217;s probe\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It measured twice as wide as the US and was seen from Mars\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0\u00a0NASA spacecraft &#8216;touches&#8217; the sun for the first time<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NASA has released footage showing a massive &#8216;canyon of fire&#8217; about twice the size of the US shooting out from the sun on Halloween day.<\/p>\n<p>The feature was a tremendous explosion of radiation that measured 6,200 miles wide and 62,000 miles long &#8211; large enough for the American Space Agency&#8217;s Perseverance rover to see it on Mars, which is\u00a0145.59 million miles away.<\/p>\n<p>The plasma ravine was around double the size of the entire United States and 50 times longer than the largest-known crater in our solar system, the Red Planet&#8217;s Valles Marineris.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows the filament slowing forming on the\u00a0sun&#8217;s southeastern limb and accelerating until it bursts, releasing\u00a0electrified gas toward the\u00a0\u2018Earth-strike-zone.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/19\/77336965-12703619-image-a-7_1698953889187.jpg\" height=\"479\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>NASA has released footage showing a massive &#8216;canyon of fire&#8217; about twice the size of the US shooting out from the sun on Halloween day<\/p>\n<p>The clip was captured by NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on October 30 as it flew by Earth&#8217;s massive star.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit is sunspot AR3477, which released an M flare that can cause brief radio blackouts that affect Earth&#8217;s polar regions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, EarthSky\u00a0reports that the sunspot also released eight C flares in the last 24 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On November 1, AR3477 shot an M1.2 flare that caused radio blackouts over the South Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>And the flare released last month could impact Earth on November 4.<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s probe, SDO, was recently named\u00a0the fastest artificial object in history.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/19\/77335433-12703619-image-a-9_1698952032812.jpg\" height=\"622\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It was large enough for the American Space Agency&#8217;s Perseverance rover to see it on Mars , which is 145.59 million miles away<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/19\/77335431-12703619-image-a-8_1698952025611.jpg\" height=\"631\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The feature was a tremendous explosion of radiation that measured 6,200 miles wide and 62,000 miles long\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The craft hit a record speed of 394,736 miles per hour (mph) last month, twice as fast as a bolt of lightning or 200 times the speed of a rifle bullet.<\/p>\n<p>The achievement was made during its 17th sun swing on September 27, breaking its distance record by skimming just 4.51 million from the solar surface.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SDO launched on August 12, 2018, to study the sun.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the probe uncovered the source in the sun, which produces solar energetic particles that threaten crewed spaceflight, near-Earth satellites and airplanes.<\/p>\n<p>A team of US researchers analyzed the composition of particles that flew towards Earth in 2014 and found the same &#8216;fingerprint&#8217; 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