28 March 2024 - Mission Day: 10345 - DOY: 088
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A rapidly expanding "solar quake" on the Sun’s surface depicted here by the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI). It immediately followed a solar flare on 1996 July 6 and spread out more than 100,000 km at the solar surface. Scientists have shown that solar flares produce seismic waves, and gigantic seismic quakes, in the Sun's interior. They have tracked these seismic waves and found that "sun-quakes" closely resemble earthquakes on our planet.

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