Comet Encke collides with a CME
NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a coronal mass ejection and a comet.
Comet Encke visualization from STEREO with a Black/Grey background.
Comet Encke visualization from STEREO with a Black/Blue background.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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Animator
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
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Scientist
- Angelos Vourlidas (NRL)
Missions
This page is related to the following missions:Datasets used
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[STEREO]
ID: 169The STEREO mission consists of two Sun-observing spacecraft that will travel around the Sun on orbits slightly inside and slightly outside Earth's orbit.
This dataset can be found at: https://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Note: While we identify the data sets used on this page, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, October 1, 2007.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.