CMEpalooza: The Complete Series
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- Visualizations by:
- Tom Bridgman
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Mid-May 2013 marked a series of active solar events, the likes of which have not been seen since near the peak of solar cycle 23 in October-November of 2003 (see Looking Back at 2003s Spooky Halloween Solar Storms).
Five distinct coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, were launched from the sun from Active Regions AR 1748 starting May 13, 2013, through May 20, 2013. Some of the CMEs were associated with preceding M- and X-class flares. The CMEs were not a major threat to Earth technologies as most of them missed Earth, but they did impact various NASA satellites around the solar system. The last of the series of CMEs brushed by Earth.
Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, the Space Weather Research Center (SWRC) and the Community-Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), Enlil and Dusan Odstrcil (GMU).
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.) [Lead]
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Writers
- Karen Fox (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Missions
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Enlil Heliospheric Model (Enlil Heliospheric Model)
ID: 685MHD solar wind simulation
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DE421 (JPL DE421)
ID: 752Planetary ephemerides
This dataset can be found at: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?ephemerides#planets
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Related Pages
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ID: 4078 Visualization
CMEpalooza - May 15, 2013
Read moreActive Region 11748 launches another big coronal mass ejection (CME) into the solar system along with X-class flares. See CMEpalooza - May 14, 2013 for the previous event. This is the forecast trajectory from the Community-Coordinated Modeling Center of the CME through the inner solar system. ||
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ID: 4079 Visualization
CMEpalooza - May 14, 2013
Read moreAs active Region 11748 rotated into Earth's view over the left limb of the sun it erupted with many large flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Some of the flares were X-class.This event is of particular interest as it launched three CMEs that are expected to merge into a large plasma cloud and continue heading out into the solar system. A few NASA spacecraft were in the path of this event — their operators can put the spacecraft into safe mode for protection when required. ||
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