3 NASA Satellites Recreate Solar Eruption in 3-D (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Using data from three different satellites, scientists have developed new models that recreate, in 3-D, CMEs and shocks, separately. This movie illustrates the recreation of a CME and shock that erupted from the Sun on March 7, 2011. The pink lines show the CME structure and the yellow lines show the structure of the shock - a side effect of the CME that can spark space weather events around Earth. Download in HD: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12890#24859

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/GMU/APL/Joy Ng

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