Sun  ID: 2950

Building a 3-D Coronal Mass Ejection from 2-D Data

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on July 1, 2004
Using differences in polarization of light directly from the Sun vs. scattered from the CME electrons, it is possible to derive a distance of matter along the line-of-sight. This version is an early release of animation #2958.
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Movie viewing the CME reconstruction from different angles.
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View of the CME towards the Earth
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View of the CME from the side.
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View of the CME from above.

Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Thomas Moran (CUA): Scientist
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Science Paper:
Moran, T.G. and Davila, J.M., 2004, Science 305, pp. 66-70.

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Mission:
SOHO

Data Used:
SOHO/Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI) also referred to as: SOHO/MDI
NASA and ESA - 1999-06-29
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SOHO/Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO)/C2 also referred to as: LASCO/C2
NASA and ESA - 1999-06-29
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This item is part of this series:
3-D Coronal Mass Ejections

Keywords:
SVS >> SOHO
DLESE >> Space science
NASA Science >> Sun
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Coronal Mass Ejections

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0