SOHO/LASCO View of January 2005 Solar Events

  • Released Tuesday, May 24, 2005
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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.

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.

A nice 'light-bulb' CME.

A nice 'light-bulb' CME.

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

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

For More Information

See http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/solar_fireworks.html

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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)

This page was originally published on Tuesday, May 24, 2005.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.

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