SOHO Pick of the Week A CME Bursts into Space (October 30, 2001)
These three images taken over four hours by the LASCO C2 instrument
show a rapidly expanding coronal mass ejection (CME) blasting
billions of tons of particles out from the Sun at over a million
kilometers per hour. This is just one of a number of CMEs that
occurred during the past week. The Sun, blocked by an occulting disk,
is represented by the white circle. The breadth of view of the C2
instrument is twelve solar radii or about 8.6 million kilometers.
