Read Laboratory Exercise 6, section 3b and answer question 21.
Figure 6.16 Animation of SOHO MDI white light image of the sun for the month of June 2002
Use the following image of the sun’s photosphere to calculate the rotational period of the sun.
Figure 6.17 Table of SOHO MDI Images of Sun
Sunspots are labeled by number. There was no data available for the days with blanks.
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