SOHO Pick of the Week: An Earth-directed CME (March 20, 2002)
Image series over a five-hour period shows a coronal mass ejection
(CME) exploding out from the Sun, mostly to the right. The images
taken by the LASCO C3 instrument show the expanding cloud of
particles in visible light. By the time this CME reached Earth two
days later, it had expanded to over 50 million km wide. It did
generate some auroral activity.
SOHO began its Weekly Pick some time after
sending a weekly image or video clip to the American Museum of
Natural History (Rose Center) in New York City. There, the SOHO Weekly Pick is displayed with some annotations on a large plasma display.
If your institution would also like to receive the same Weekly Pick from us
for display (usually in Photoshop or QuickTime format), please send
your inquiry to steele.hill@gsfc.nasa.gov.
