To play the chance activity game you need to be on the alert for
patterns in the solar images and use some strategy to maximize your points. For
instance, a pattern contain two CME images could go in either the "2 images the
same" scoring box or in the "CME" scoring box for different point values. You
get two chances to make a pattern.
Remember that you must add a score to one of your empty boxes on each round.
IF YOU DON"T MAKE A PATTERN OR THE CORRECT BOX ALREADY CONTAINS A SCORE YOU
MUSTADD A ZERO IN ONE OF YOUR REMAINING BOXES.
The trickiest part is to identify a sequence in your 4 images which can get
you the big points. You must detect these patterns yourself, the game won't do
it for you. To help we have listed the only allowable sequences here with the
individual image descriptions given below.
Note also that each sequence relates to the physical sequence of events in a
real solar eruption.
Allowable Sequences
Small sequences |
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| Filament -> |
Eruption -> |
CME |
| |
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|
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| Filament -> |
Eruption -> |
Arcade |
| |
|
|
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| Eruption -> |
CME -> |
Aurora |
|
Large sequence |
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|
|
| Filament -> |
Eruption -> |
CME -> |
Aurora | |
Note that you do not need these images to come up in order to score a
sequence. Take a close look at the images and see if you can identify 3 or 4
images which can be linked to make up one of these patterns.
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Sunspot: Picture taken by the Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope
(SVST) at La Palma on 7 June, 2000. |
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Filament:Picture taken in the
H-alpha line by the High Altitude
Observatory on 11 August 1980 |
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Erupting Filament:Picture taken
by the TRACE satellite in the
Extreme Ultraviolet on 19 July 2000. |
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Post-eruption arcade:Picture
taken by the TRACE satellite
in the Extreme Ultraviolet on July 14 2000. |
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Coronal Mass Ejection:Picture
taken by the LASCO
and EIT instruments on
board the SOHO
spacecraft. |
|
Enhanced aurora:Picture taken in
Alaska by D.
Hutchinson. |
