Building a 3-D Coronal Mass Ejection from 2-D Data
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 enhanced version of animation ID 2950 with a color table enhanced to show fainter regions of the CME.
Movie viewing the CME reconstruction from different angles.
View of the CME towards the Earth
View of the CME from the side.
View of the CME from above.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientist
- Thomas Moran (CUA)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, July 1, 2004.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.
Missions
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This visualization can be found in the following series:Papers used in this visualization
Moran, T.G. and Davila, J.M., 2004, Science 305, pp. 66-70.
Datasets used in this visualization
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SOHO/MDI [SOHO: Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI)]
ID: 96This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov
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LASCO/C2 (C2) [SOHO: Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO)]
ID: 160This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov
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