Earth-Directed Coronal Mass Ejection (Wide-Field) (VIDEO)

Southwest Research Institute

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Image plane data are distorted using so-called “conformal radial” mapping to present both the Sun and the wide-field planetary field in the same screen.

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SwRI

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