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SOHO/LASCO View of January 2005 Solar Events
The January 20 flare began just before 2 a.m. ET. A storm of energetic protons impacted Earth just 15 minutes later. These views of the flare are from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The proton storm near Earth causes `snow' in the images, obscuring the Sun as radiation swamps the cameras. The structure at the 1:30 position in the SOHO/LASCO/C3 data is the occulting disk pylon.

Movie of LASCO and EIT data in late January 2005.    Movie of LASCO and EIT data in late January 2005.
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The CME in question is so fast, it appears in only one LASCO/C2 camera frame.    The CME in question is so fast, it appears in only one LASCO/C2 camera frame.

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A nice 'light-bulb' CME.    A nice 'light-bulb' CME.

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The LASCO imagers are quickly saturated by hits from solar protons.    The LASCO imagers are quickly saturated by hits from solar protons.

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Animation Number:3159
Animator:Tom Bridgman (SVS) (Lead)
Completed:2005-05-19
Scientists:Robert Lin (University of California, Berkeley)
 Richard Mewaldt (California Institute of Technology)
 Richard Nightingale (LMSAL)
Instruments:SOHO/EIT
 SOHO/LASCO/C2
 SOHO/LASCO/C3
Data Collected:SOHO/EIT 195A: 2005/01/15T00:00:10-2005/01/21T23:48:11, SOHO/LASCO-C2: 2005/01/15T00:06:05-2005/01/21T23:54:05, SOHO/LASCO-C3:2005/01/15T00:18:05-2005/01/21T23:42:05
Series:New Space Weather Mystery
Keywords:
SVS >> Coronal Loop
SVS >> Coronal Mass Ejection
SVS >> Solar Active Region
DLESE >> Space science
SVS >> Sun
SVS >> Ultraviolet
GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Flares
SVS >> Active Region 10720
More Information on this topic available at:
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/solar_fireworks.html
 
 
Please give credit for this item to
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio. Others who provided data and consultations: Karl Battams (NRL), Brian Dennis (NASA/GSFC), Sam Krucker (University of California at Berkeley)


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