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Double Trouble (May 9, 2002)

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  • Two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were captured by SOHO's LASCO C2 instrument on 2 May 2002. Nearly simultaneously, two CMEs blasted into opposite directions (at the two o'clock and eight o'clock positions) from the Sun, a fairly uncommon occurrence. CMEs eject a billion tons of particles traveling millions of miles an hour. The dark disk blocks the Sun so that the LASCO instrument can observe the structures of the corona in visible light. Neither of these events seemed to have triggered any aurora activity on Earth.

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