Yes, it does. I personally counted the pixels many many many times.
There is no light that comes from 4800KM from within the photosphere. It is nearly opaque just a few hundred KM down. Ask any of the NASA scientists who run the SDO.
I'm quite certain that prior to the launch of SDO, virtually everyone involved with SDO was quite confident in the standard solar model. That is definitely no longer the case as I pointed out in the opening post. Both the first light AIA images, *and* the HMI gear *both* blow standard solar theory claims *completely away*. Whatever model might survive the age of SDO, it will definitely *not* be the standard solar theory.
Perhaps this picture will help you out:
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/gallery/assets/preview/Mag_combo.jpg
This is a composite picture. Here is the caption for the photo:
The images of this Sun (Dec. 7, 2011) taken at almost the same time are shown in various wavelengths in various temperatures and layers of the Sun. In addition, we superimposed an illustration of the Sun's magnetic field lines to the view. We start off looking at the 6,000 degrees C. photosphere that shows the various sunspots on the "surface" of the Sun.
That would be the bright yellow 4500A wavelength on the far left. The 4500A wavelength is not included in your iron ion composite image, so you have no way to reference the "photosphere" in relationship the the bases of the flux loops seen in the iron ion wavelengths in your image.
Then we transition into the region between the chromosphere and the corona, at about 1 million degrees C. where, in extreme UV light, the active regions appear lighter. We phase in a composite of three different wavelengths showing temperatures up to 2 million degrees C. To top it off, we overlay a science-based estimation of the complex magnetic field lines (partly made visible in the first UV image) extending from and connecting the active regions before going back to the sunspot image. Who says the Sun is boring?
Essentially every other wavelength in that composite image is an iron ion wavelength associated with the flux ropes, and the electrical current that sustains those million degree flux ropes at high temperatures for hours and sometimes days at a time.
From even *before* they put "TRACE" (Transition region coronal explorer) into space, they "assumed" the existence of a 'transition region' that they "predicted" would be located in the upper chromosphere/lower corona of the sun, where they "assumed" that somehow (magically apparently) temperatures soar from a few thousand, to a few million degree, in a very thin atmospheric layer about 1200KM or so *above* the surface of the photosphere.
The engineers that designed and built SDO were absolutely intent on "testing" their "transition region" theory with SDO. The image we are discussing is the culmination of many hours of human effort to test exactly that theory. It overlays the iron ion 'transition region" images with the chromosphere/photosphere boundary, showing the geometric relationship between the top and bottom of the chromosphere and the base of the flux ropes from the 'transition region'. What they 'should have" seen in standard theory and what they actually observed are two entirely different animals.
In standard theory the "transition" region (the transition from opaque to bright horizon in the iron ion images), should have been locate somewhere *inside the orange 304A band* of the chromosphere. Instead it's located 4800KM *under* that orange band, and *under* what is 'supposed' to be an "opaque" surface to such wavelengths.
As predicted at BAUT in 2005 however, there is a 4800KM gap between the base of the orange chromosphere and the limb darkening feature seen in the iron ion wavelengths. That can *only* be explained with an electric sun, because only an electric sun could ionize the solar atmosphere to such a high energy state so as to allow these high energy wavelengths to travel such distances through the solar atmosphere.
The yellow portion of the picture on the left is the 6,000C photosphere. The portion you keep pointing is labelled by the SDO scientists as the 1 million degree C chromosphere and corona. Clearly, the photosphere is below what you are pointing to according to the SDO scientists.
I'm sure that what they *expected* to observe alright, just as they *expected* to observe fast convection. Unfortunately SDO didn't get the memo.
That first light image is probably *the* single most important image of the sun that humans have ever seen. Unless you have *real evidence* that NASA 'doctored' that image in any way, I strongly suggest you recant that claim, otherwise you come off sounding like nothing but moon landing hoaxer.
Had that limb darkening in the iron lines, and the bright horizon in the iron lines been located somewhere inside the orange band, or somewhere *above* it, I would have taken down my website in a day because I only have to answer to myself, to falsify what I believe in. Falsifying a model that virtually *everyone* believes in takes time. Even falsifying one model doesn't necessarily tell you which model is correct. A lot of soul searching is going on in solar physics these days. Heliosciesmology data has in fact crushed standard theory. Whatever theory does survive SDO scrutiny, it's definitely *not* standard solar theory.
As I have also explained, SDO allows us to overlay magnetogram images, 1600A images, and iron ion images in virtually real time, 24/7. Such overlay images are completely consistent with the first light images. They show that only the largest loops traverse the surface of the photosphere and leave bright footprints and magnetic alignments on it's surface. The flux ropes rip pieces of the Neon photosphere out into space along the path of travel and can be seen along the limbs coming up and through the photosphere in 1600A.
The array of new wavelengths and new features on SDO will take years to fully digest and appreciate, but all the images I've see thus far are completely consistent with a Birkeland cathode solar model, with a mass separated solar atmosphere.
